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Installing SmartTarget in the cloud

If your Fredhopper environment is running in the cloud, provide the Fredhopper extensions folder to your Fredhopper system administrator for installation on the cloud.

About this task

Install the following files—available on the SmartTarget installation media in the Fredhopper extensions folder—in your cloud installation:

  • metadata.xml
  • trigger-types.xml
  • smarttarget_api_extension.jar
  • configuration-management-rest-extension.jar
You DO NOT need to install the following when Fredhopper is running in the cloud:
  • STJob.kjb
  • SmartTarget Deployment Web service

After installation, you Fredhopper system administrator must provide you with the URLs to connect to your Fredhopper instance. The following procedure describes the configuration of the relevant sections of the sections smarttarget_conf. Note that for all these services, the customer is identified by their credentials so the URLs are similar for customers.

Procedure

  1. Open the smarttarget_conf.xml configuration file.

    The file is used in several locations in your installation: Where to find smarttarget_conf.xml

  2. Configure the <Hosted> section (the URL to place Published packages into Frehopper):
    1. You will need to specify the instance name. test1 is an example instance name: typically, instances are named: test1, test2, test3, live1, live2, live3 and so on.
    2. You might need to reconfigure eu1 (the region) to us1 if your Fredhopper environment is located in the US.
    <Hosted>
         <Enable>True</Enable>
         <ServiceInstanceName>fas:test1</ServiceInstanceName>
         <Url>https://my.eu1.fredhopperservices.com/</Url>
     </Hosted>
  3. Configure the <IndexServer> section using the URL and credentials provided by your Fredhopper system administrator, for example:
    <IndexServer>
        <Url>https://query.prepublished.test1.fas.eu1.fredhopperservices.com/</Url>
            <Authentication>
               <Username>name</Username>
                <Password>password</Password>
                </Authentication>\
    </IndexServer>
  4. Configure the <QueryServer> section using the URL and credentials provided by your Fredhopper system administrator, for example:
    <QueryServer>
       <Url>https://query.published.test1.fas.eu1.fredhopperservices.com/</Url>
          <Authentication>
              <Username>name</Username>
               <Password>password</Password>
           </Authentication>
           <Timeouts>
              <Query>2000</Query>
           </Timeouts>
    </QueryServer>
  5. Encrypt the passwords using the SDL Tridion command line tool.
  6. Based on the URLs below, you can access the Business Manager using the following URL: https://query.prepublished.test1.fas.eu1.fredhopperservices.com/fredhopper/admin/