Jump to main content
HCL Logo Help Center
HCL TECHNOLOGIES ABOUT US PRODUCTS & SOLUTIONS RESOURCES CONTACT US
  • HCL® Marketing Platform v11.0 documentation
  • HCL Marketing Platform Release Notes
  • HCL Marketing Platform Administrator's Guide
  • HCL Marketing Platform Installation Guide
  • HCL Marketing Platform Upgrade Guide
  • Fast Upgrade Guide
  • HCL Marketing Software Reports Installation and Configuration Guide
  • HCL Marketing Platform System Tables
  • HCL Marketing Platform GDPR
  • Glossary
  1. Home
  2. HCL Marketing Platform Administrator's Guide

    HCL® Marketing Platform provides security, configuration, notification, and dashboard features for HCL® Marketing Software products.

  3. This section describes one-way SSL in HCL® Marketing Software.

  4. These links provide more information on the tasks required to implement SSL in HCL® Marketing Software.

  • HCL Marketing Platform Administrator's Guide

    HCL® Marketing Platform provides security, configuration, notification, and dashboard features for HCL® Marketing Software products.

    • HCL® Marketing Platform provides security, configuration, notification, and dashboard features for HCL® Marketing Software products.

    • You can manage the attributes of user accounts created using HCL® Marketing Platform user interface, which we refer to as internal accounts. This is in contrast to external user accounts, which are imported from an external system such as an LDAP server or web access control system.

    • HCL® Marketing Platform supports roles and permissions to control user access to objects and features in HCL® Marketing Software applications.

    • When HCL® Marketing Software is first installed, the Configuration page shows only the properties used to configure HCL® Marketing Platform and some global configuration properties. When you install additional HCL Marketing Software applications, the properties used to configure these applications are registered with Marketing Platform. These properties are then shown on the Configuration page, where you can set or modify their values.

    • Dashboards are configurable pages that contain information useful to groups of users who fill various roles within your company. The components that make up dashboards are called portlets. Dashboards can contain pre-defined portlets or portlets that you create.

    • The HCL® Marketing Software Scheduler enables you to configure a process to run at intervals that you define.

    • HCL® Marketing Platform implements a SAML 2.0 based Identity Provider (IdP) that enables a single sign-on federation among HCL® Marketing Software products or between HCL Marketing Software products and third party applications.

    • Marketing Platform supports SAML 2.0 based single sign-on.

    • JSON web token (JWT) authentication is used for Journey Designer+Campaign. JWT authentication allows single sign-on between applications.

    • If your organization uses IBM® Digital Analytics, you can enable single sign-on between Digital Analytics and HCL Marketing Software.

    • Marketing Platform can be configured to integrate with Windows™ Active Directory server or another LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server. By integrating HCL® Marketing Software with a directory server, you can maintain users and groups in one centralized location. Integration provides a flexible model for extending the enterprise authorization policies into HCL Marketing Software applications. Integration reduces support costs and the time needed to deploy an application in production.

    • Marketing Platform can be configured to integrate with Windows™ Active Directory server or another LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) server. By integrating HCL® Marketing Software with a directory server, you can maintain users and groups in one centralized location. Integration provides a flexible model for extending the enterprise authorization policies into HCL Marketing Software applications. Integration reduces support costs and the time needed to deploy an application in production.

    • Organizations use web access control platforms to consolidate their security systems, which provide a portal that regulates user access to web sites. This section provides an overview of HCL® Marketing Software integration with web access control platforms.

    • HCL® Marketing Platform provides support for system alerts and user notifications sent by HCL® Marketing Software products.

    • This section describes one-way SSL in HCL® Marketing Software.

      • Read this section to understand SSL certificates in general.

      • HCL® Marketing Software application components can act as either the client or the server in a communication, depending on the situation.

      • Many HCL® application components can act as both server and client during normal operations, and some HCL components are written in Java™ and some in C++. These facts determine the format of the certificates you use. You specify the format when you create a self-signed certificate or purchase one from a CA.

      • Use this configuration process roadmap to scan the tasks required to implement SSL in HCL® Marketing Software. The Topic column provides links to the topics that describe the tasks in detail.

      • Certificates for SSL

        This procedure describes how to create and configure your own certificates. Perform a similar procedure for every HCL® Marketing Software you configure to use SSL. If you are configuring the Campaign + Engage integration, see the HCL® Campaign and Engage Integration Guide for HCL Marketing Cloud.

      • On every application server on which an HCL® Marketing Software application is deployed, configure the web application server to use the certificates you have decided to employ.

      • To configure HCL® Marketing Software applications to use SSL, you must set some configuration properties. Use the procedures in this section that are appropriate for your installation of HCL Marketing Software products and the communications that you want to secure using SSL.

      • Follow this procedure to verify your SSL configuration.

      • These links provide more information on the tasks required to implement SSL in HCL® Marketing Software.

      • Quality of protection settings for WebLogic

        You must set the QoP settings when you configure HCL Marketing Software applications to use SSL.

      • Quality of protection settings for WebSphere

        You must set the QoP settings when you configure HCL Marketing Software applications to use SSL.

    • Marketing Platform provides the security framework for the APIs implemented by HCL® Marketing Software products.

    • Data filters make it possible to restrict the customer data that an HCL® Marketing Software user can view and work with in HCL Marketing Software applications. You can think of the data you secure with a data filter as a data set defined by the fields in your customer tables that you specify.

    • You can configure which audit events are tracked and assign a severity level to each tracked event.

    • You should check the system log first if the Marketing Platform application malfunctions. The system log is independent of the security audit information, which is stored in the system tables. While the system log tracks some of the same information contained in the security audit reports, it also contains information useful in troubleshooting Marketing Platform.

    • This section provides an overview of the Marketing Platform utilities, including some details that apply to all of the utilities and which are not included in the individual utility descriptions.

    • This section describes the configuration properties found on the Settings & Configuration page.

    • You can customize the appearance of the user interface where most HCL® Marketing Software product pages appear. By editing a cascading style sheet and providing your own graphics, you can change many of the images, fonts, and colors in the user interface.

Useful links for SSL

These links provide more information on the tasks required to implement SSL in HCL® Marketing Software.

  • GS Kit documentation - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/security/tutorials/se-gskit/

  • Java keytool documentation - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/tools/solaris/keytool.html

  • List of certificate authorities - https://curlie.org/Computers/Security/Public_Key_Infrastructure/PKIX/Tools_and_Services/Third_Party_Certificate_Authorities/

© Copyright HCL Technologies Limited 1996, 2019 / About HCL Software / Acquisition FAQ / Government - US Federal / Welcome / Contact Us