Here is the detailed video on How to Install and configure Pega Customer Decision Hub in Pega Personal edition 8.5 version.
Prerequisite
Install Pega Personal Edition 8.5v or later
Login as Administrator (username: administrator@pega.com, pwd: install)
Step 1: create new schema in database
In your external database, create the schema where your customer data resides, for example, ExternalMKTData, and ensure that the Pega Deployment User has full permissions for this schema
Step 2: Database Information
Before you install Pega Customer Decision Hub, ensure that you have the following database
information available
Hostname or IP address (Example: localhost)
Database port (Example: 5432)
Database name (Example: postgres)
Step 3: Create Database rule
Create the ExternalMKTDatadatabase rule
Log in to Pega Platform by entering the administrative ID, for example, administrator@pega.com and the password install
Click Records SysAdmin Database.
Click Create.
Enter the following information:
Short description – External Marketing Data
Database – ExternalMKTData
Click Create and open.
Step 4: Create DSS
In Pega Platform, create the following Dynamic System Setting to specify the default schema used by the
ExternalMKTDatadatabase rule:
Owning Ruleset -Pega-Engine
Setting Purpose -prconfig/database/databases/ExternalMKTData/defaultSchema/default
Value-ExternalMKTData
*Restart Pega Platform to enable the setting
Step 5: Importing application bundles
Rules/PegaCDH_Core_0805.zip. This contains the Pega Customer Decision Hub framework application which consists of schema changes, JAR files, and rulesets required by Pega Customer Decision Hub that are not shipped separately
Step 6: Running the Pega Customer Decision Hub Setup Utility
The Pega Customer Decision Hub Setup Utility is used to run database scripts against your database. It can be run either interactively, or with a preconfigured database.propertiesfile.
This utility is located in the ResourceKit/setup folder
Run the script setup.bat (Windows) or setup.sh (Unix/Linux). The utility validates the DB connection and generates scripts based upon the properties set in the database.propertiesfile.
After the scripts are generated, you are prompted to execute the scripts or cancel setup. You can
review the scripts before executing them.
After running the scripts, you can review the run_sql_errors.log file in the logs folder to make sure that there are no critical errors.
If you are installing Pega Customer Decision Hub for the first time, you may see a Drop Procedure error. You can ignore this error.
Step 7: Restarting the application server
At the end of the installation process, restart the application server.
Log out of Pega Platform.
Step 8: Verifying that you can create the Pega Customer Decision Hub application
To verify that the installation process has completed successfully, check that the New Application
wizard shows the option to create a new Pega Customer Decision Hub or Pega Operations Manager
application.
In Dev Studio, click Application New Application.
In the New Application wizard, verify that you see the options to create a new Pega Customer
Decision Hub or Pega Operations Manager application
Stop and start the application server
Step 9: Create CDH application
At the end of the installation process, restart the application server.
Log out of Pega Platform.
Stop and start the application server
