Installing tracking (Java)

You must install Tracking components on a publicly accessible Web site. This task describes how to install Tracking components on a Java-based Web Application Server.

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. Go to your existing public-facing Web site.
  2. Install and configure the Content Delivery API Server Role:
    1. Installing a server role as a JSP Web application—universal procedure
    2. Configuring the API server role for a JSP Web application
  3. Access the SDL Tridion installation media.
  4. 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.
  5. Install JSP and default images for Tracking: navigate to Outbound E-Mail\Presentation System\Java\Tracking\Web and copy all files to a directory in your Web site.
  6. 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
  7. 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.