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Administering HCL Discover involves configuring and integrating the HCL Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by HCL Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by HCL Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
HCL Discover Administration Manual
Discover Admin Overview
This section is an overview to the Discover system and its components.
Login requirements
Certain prerequisites are required before logging in.
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Administration
Administering HCL Discover involves configuring and integrating the HCL Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by HCL Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by HCL Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
- HCL Discover Administration Manual
  - Discover Admin Overview
    This section is an overview to the Discover system and its components.
    - What is Discover?
      HCL Discover is customer experience management (CEM) software that performs the following functions:
    - How Discover Works
      Discover software running on computers in your data center is configured to see every byte of data exchanged between your web servers and the browsers on your visitors' computers. Discover passively captures the bi-directional data stream and forwards a copy of each relevant packet of that data to a server running the Discover system.
    - Discover Terms and Concepts
      The figure below illustrates Discover's data structure at a lower level.
    - Search, Replay, and Reporting
      After the session data has been processed, it is available to Discover users to monitor the health of their business and solve problems. Discover includes several tools for these purposes.
    - Login requirements
      Certain prerequisites are required before logging in.
      - Logging In
        Logging in as Admin
        Tips for logging in as an administrator.
  - Discover System Monitoring
    Discover provides several mechanisms for monitoring the health of the Discover system and Discover user activities. This section provides access to the various tools available in the Discover system for monitoring it and its users.
  - Portal Management
    This section contains administration topics for managing the Discover Portal and features available through it.
  - Discover Management System
    The Discover Management System (Manage Services) centralizes configuration management for Discover systems on Windows™-based hosts.
  - Database Administration
    The HCL Discover datastore runs on top of a set of four Microsoft™ SQL Server databases.
  - Report Access Permissions
    Users whose accounts contain the proper permissions may administer Discover reports. Depending on the type of report, permissions to administer individual reports of that type are configured in the report definition.
  - Managing User Agents
    Through Discover, you can monitor the different types of user agents that contact your web application. Through a provided set of data objects, Discover can identify the type of traffic that is requesting resources from your web application and then monitor counts and other information that pertains to the type of user agent. These objects can be used as the source data for developing a useful set of user agent-related reports, enabling you to closely monitor the composition of traffic to your site.
  - Configuring User Agent Detection
    This section describes how to acquire and maintain the configuration files necessary for parsing of fixed and mobile user agents and how to prepare those files for use in the HCL Discover platform.
  - Configuring User Agent Events
    To use the data that is injected into the [ExtendedUserAgent] section by the Discover SessionAgentTLTRef, a Discover administrator must create events that create charts for this data.
  - User Agent Tools
    These external utilities can be used to monitor and update user agent configuration data that is required by Discover.
  - bot Detection
    Most commercial enterprise web applications are subjected to significant traffic from web crawling bots. Short for "robot," a bot is a software agent that navigates websites to extract information about them. Some bots are used by search engines for indexing pages.
  - Discover Reference Information
    Use the links below to access reference information on file formats, common standards, and more in use by the Discover system.
  - Integrating HCL Discover and Unica Journey
    HCL Discover and Unica Journey integration works with CEP configuration. The CEP configuration enables the event to be sent to CEP and the external systems. Unica Discover-Unica Journey integration is supported from version 12.1.0.3 onwards.
  - Integrating HCL Discover and Unica Interact
    HCL Discover and Unica Interact integration works with CEP configuration. The CEP configuration enables the event to be sent to CEP and the external systems. Unica Discover-Unica Interact integration is supported from version 12.1.0.3 onwards.
  - Selective Deletion
    You can delete sessions and session fragments from the HCL Discover system with the Selective Deletion tool.
  - Using the ArchiveConfig utility
    Run the ArchiveConfig utility to configure and execute Selective Archiving.
  - ELK Configurations
    Before configuring ELK on HCL Discover, there are some prerequisites:
  - Securing Interprocess Communication
    Discover 12.1.8 and above supports the use of a new SSL certificate based mechanism for securing all inter-process communication between the Discover servers. This is important in a distributed environment with multiple servers, as the components of Discover communicate with each other over the network, using a variety of ports.
  - Support for Okta
    From version 12.1.12, HCL Discover supports Okta authentication for customers who wish to use Okta instead of Microsoft Windows NT Authentication.
- HCL Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

Logging In

Procedure

Launch a supported browser.
Enter the following URL into your browser:
```
http://<servername>/portal 
```
where: <servername> is the hostname of the machine on which the HCL Discover Portal has been installed by your Discover administrator.
Enter your login name and password.
- If Discover is configured to use the Windows™ Active Directory system (NT authentication), your login is the same as the name and password that you use for Windows™.
Click Login.
The default start page for your primary user group is displayed.
- For more information on configuring the default start page for each group, see "User Administration" in the HCL Discover Administration Manual.