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Administration
Administering Unica Discover involves configuring and integrating the Unica Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by Unica Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by Unica Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
Unica Discover Administration Manual
Database Administration
The Unica Discover datastore runs on top of a set of four Microsoft™ SQL Server databases.
Troubleshooting Discover databases
If you are experiencing an access or performance-related issue with your installed Discover SQL database, review the troubleshooting tips in this section, which may help to resolve your issue.
SQL Server configuration
Topics in this section describe ways to correct issues with SQL Server configuration.
Unable to connect to SQL Server
If Discover is unable to connect to the SQL Server database, try the following steps:

Unable to connect to SQL Server

If Discover is unable to connect to the SQL Server database, try the following steps:

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SQL Server custom ports
- By default, SQL Server listens on port 1433, which is also the default communication port for Discover, unless selected differently during installation. You can verify this value through the SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Unable to connect through dynamic ports
- If your SQL Server implementation uses dynamic ports, you must sync your Discover solution with them. See Configuring use of SQL Server dynamic ports.
SQL network protocols
- By default, SQL Server does not enable TCP and Named Pipes, which are used by Discover. Verify that these protocols are enabled through the SQL Configuration Manager.