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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.
Session Archiving Guide
Session and archive tasks
You use Session Archiving to manage data extractions and move extractions to archives.
Configuring the SessionArchiving.properties file
Configure the SessionArchiving.properties file to control error logging, memory caching, and hit processing for LTS.
Configuring Hit exception processing in the SessionArchiving.properties file
You can set parameters in the SessionArchiving.properties to add Hits for "Server or Resource Not Found" error exceptions.

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
- HCL Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide
  - HCL Discover Session Archiving overview
    The HCL Discover Session Archiving User guide provides information on extracting session data based on a schedule and archiving sessions.
  - Session and archive tasks
    You use Session Archiving to manage data extractions and move extractions to archives.
    - Configuring the SessionArchiving.properties file
      Configure the SessionArchiving.properties file to control error logging, memory caching, and hit processing for LTS.
      - Configuring error logging in the SessionArchiving.properties file
        You can set parameters in the SessionArchiving.properties file to control error logging levels and other aspects of LTS logging.
      - Configuring caching in the SessionArchiving.properties file
        You can set parameters in the SessionArchiving.properties file to control LTS caching.
      - Configuring Hit exception processing in the SessionArchiving.properties file
        You can set parameters in the SessionArchiving.properties to add Hits for "Server or Resource Not Found" error exceptions.
      - LTS exception error logs
        You can troubleshoot LTS exception errors by analyzing the contents of 2 log files.
      - PDF and .lts file numbering
        LTS extraction utilizes incremental numbering for PDF and .lts files.
    - What is a session task?
      Session tasks are used to schedule session data extractions based on servers, data set, and data filters, and then store the data.
    - Extracting session data
      You can create a new session extraction task. Session extraction tasks are used to schedule the session extraction based on servers, data set, and data filters.
    - What is an archive task?
      Archive tasks are used to archive existing data to an Archive Canister.
    - Archiving session data
      You can archive session data. Archive tasks are used to archive the session based on servers, data set, and data filters.
    - Extracting sessions to long-term storage (LTS)
      You can use various methods to extract sessions to LTS.
    - Replaying sessions from an LTS file
      You can use Browser Based Replay to open an LTS file and replay the session.
    - Replaying an LTS file from an extracted PDF session file
      To replay an LTS file from an extracted PDF session file, follow the steps listed here.
    - Viewing tasks
      You can view extraction and archive tasks configured in Session Archiving. Task information includes, ID, Task Name, Enabled, Start Time, and Schedule Type.
    - Editing tasks
      You can edit extraction and archive tasks.
    - Removing tasks
      You can remove extraction and archive tasks configured in Session Archiving.
    - Session Archiving field definitions for extraction and archive tasks
      If you need more information about populating fields during an extraction or archiving task, you can find them here.
  - Scheduled tasks
    You can view the status of scheduled tasks, check task status, run tasks again, stop tasks and disable tasks in Session Archiving.
  - HCL Discover Session Archiving trouble shooting tips
    You may encounter error messages or error situations while using Session Archiving. Use the troubleshooting tips to resolve the issues.
  - HCL Discover Session Archiving metadata fields
    The chapter provides information on HCL Discover Session Archiving metadata fields that can be used in PDF files.
  - Creating a Session Archiving task to extract multiple sessions to long-term storage (LTS)
    You can extract multiple sessions to long term storage (LTS) by creating a Session Archiving task.
  - Archiving session data
    You can archive session data. Archive tasks are used to archive the session based on servers, data set, and data filters.
  - Archiving selective session data
    You can also archive selective session data. Archive tasks are used to archive the selective sessions based on servers, data set, and data filters.
  - Session Archiving field definitions for extraction and archive tasks
    If you need more information about populating fields during an extraction or archiving task, you can find them here.
  - DOM Capture and long term storage (LTS) archiving
    You can use HCL Discover Session Archiving to save DOM Capture sessions as a Long Term Storage (LTS) in a PDF file for meta data and electronic signature.
  - Configuring the SessionArchiving.properties file
    Configure the SessionArchiving.properties file to control error logging, memory caching, and hit processing for LTS.
  - Extracting sessions to long-term storage (LTS)
    You can use various methods to extract sessions to LTS.
  - Using Archive Expiration
    In version 12.1.9, HCL Discover introduced a new tab named Archive Expiration. The archived session data was consuming a lot of space and if went unchecked for a significant time caused low space issues in the server or the allocated space. Archive Expiration ensures that you can remove unwanted or older archives. It also allows you to set shorter retention time for archived data.

Configuring Hit exception processing in the `SessionArchiving.properties` file

You can set parameters in the SessionArchiving.properties to add Hits for "Server or Resource Not Found" error exceptions.

About this task

Use the information here to learn how to add synthetic hits for "Server or Resource Not Found" error exception.

Procedure

Access the SessionArchiving.properties file.
Set the ADDHITSFOR_RESOURCESNOTFETCHED property to 1 to specify that "synthetic hits" will be added to the .lts to restrict access to the web in case of "Server or Resource Not Found" exceptions when trying to the host.

All synthetic hits that are added have a status code 200 and status code text of OK in both the request and response files as the replay server does not recognize URL's with other status. If this behavior is not suited to your needs, then set ADDHITSFOR_RESOURCESNOTFETCHED to 0 to stop adding synthetic hits and thus the replay server tries to fetch resources not found within session during replay.