Installing tracking (ASP.NET)

You must install Tracking components on a publicly accessible Web site. This task describes how to install Tracking components on Internet Information Service (IIS).

Before you begin

  • You must have created a Tracking database.
  • You must install Tracking on a publicly accessible Web site.

About this task

Outbound E-mail provides a tracking Web page that you can use to track mailing response.

Procedure

  1. Open Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
  2. Go to your existing public-facing Web site.
  3. Install and configure the Content Delivery API Server Role:
    1. Installing a server role as a .NET Web application—universal procedure
    2. Configuring the API server role for a .NET Web application
  4. Access the SDL Tridion installation media.
  5. Install DLLs for Contact Synchronization, Tracking and Tracking retrieval: navigate to Outbound E-Mail\Presentation System\NET\Synchronization\bin and copy the DLLs to the \bin folder of your Web site.
  6. Install ASPXs and default images for Tracking: navigate to Outbound E-Mail\Presentation System\NET\Synchronization\ and copy Tracking.aspx and Tracking.aspx.cs (and default Web.config, if necessary) to the \config folder of your Web site.
  7. Install JARs for Tracking and Tracking retrieval: navigate to the Outbound E-Mail\Presentation System\Java\Tracking directory and copy the JAR files to your Web site \lib directory.
  8. Download the JDBC driver (JAR file) required for your specific database vendor and Java version, and copy it into the lib folder:
    Database vendorJDBC DriverFile to download when using Java 5File to download when using Java 6
    Microsoft SQL ServerMicrosoft SQL Server JDBC Driver 3.0sqljdbc.jarsqljdbc4.jar
    Oracle

    Oracle JDBC driver 11.2.0.2 or

    Oracle JDBC driver 11.2.0.1.0 (deprecated)

    ojdbc5.jarojdbc6.jar
  9. Configure the following files:
    1. cd_storage_conf.xml—see Configuring the Tracking and Subscription databases
    2. cd_audience_manager.conf.xml—see:
    3. logback.xml (configure logging).

Results

You have installed the Tracking Web page.