Welcome
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 Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
Data Export for Data Analysis
HCL Discover Data Export enables flexible export and fluid integration of Discover session data to any external business application to create multi-channel perspectives of your visitors' experience.
Discover Event Bus
The Event Bus streams Discover event data from the Short Term Canister, the in-memory database, to a Discover pipeline. The pipeline can then deliver the event data to any system configured to receive it. The ability to send the event data as a stream in real time makes the event bus useful for integrating with real-time systems.
Installation
The Discover Event Bus is a separately configurable component of HCL Discover Data Export.

Product Overview
Customer Experience is now the number one differentiator in decision making when transacting online. It is crucial that you are able to monitor, understand and manage those online experiences using quantitative data and insights from your actual customer sessions.
Release Notes
Installation, Deployment, and Upgrade
Installing HCL Discover involves planning and preparing your environment, installing and configuring prerequisite software, obtaining the HCL Discover installation files, and running the HCL Discover installer.
Configuration
Configuring HCL Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
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
  - Data Export overview
    HCL Discover Data Export provides you with the ability to analyze and report on data captured by Discover within various third-party solutions, including custom reporting tools and databases, warehouses, business intelligence environments, and web analytics products. Additionally, HCL Discover Data Export enables the creation of a persistent store of session data from your web applications.
  - Data Export Installation/Upgrade
    This section contains preparation information and the required steps to install or upgrade HCL Discover Data Export on an existing HCL Discover system.
  - Data Export for Data Analysis
    HCL Discover Data Export enables flexible export and fluid integration of Discover session data to any external business application to create multi-channel perspectives of your visitors' experience.
    - Data Export configuring tasks
      Through the Discover Portal, you can configure tasks to be run according to schedule by HCL Discover Data Export.
    - Configured Tasks window
      Using the Configured Tasks window you can review, edit, create, and delete configured tasks.
    - Editing tasks or creating new tasks
      When you choose to edit or create a task, you must provide name, schedule, source, and destination information, as well as any content filtering or notification options.
    - Time values in Data Export
      Discover records multiple time values, or timestamps, during the process of a visitor making a request, the web server evaluating it and returning a response, and the response being rendered in the client browser.
    - Data file integration example
      This example uses the data files integration method of HCL Discover Data Export to extract specific URLs, URL Fields, and Cookies and import this data into the Data Files temporary database.
    - Data Export scheduling tasks
      Through the Portal, you can monitor your scheduled HCL Discover Data Export tasks.
    - Scheduled Tasks window
      In the Scheduled Tasks window, you can review the tasks that were scheduled to run, initiated, or completed.
    - Context menu
      When you select a task and select the three dots in the last column of the task row, you will see the following options:
    - Task execution
      At the scheduled time, HCL Discover Data Export runs the specified task. At the time of execution, HCL Discover Data Export requires that basic HCL Discover services, such as Search Server be available. Additionally, the Discover Extractor Service must be operational.
    - Discover Event Bus
      The Event Bus streams Discover event data from the Short Term Canister, the in-memory database, to a Discover pipeline. The pipeline can then deliver the event data to any system configured to receive it. The ability to send the event data as a stream in real time makes the event bus useful for integrating with real-time systems.
      - Event Bus pipeline
        The default Event Bus pipeline has the following active session agents:
      - Workflow
        To deliver Discover events to an external complex event processing engine, complete the following steps:
      - Installation
        The Discover Event Bus is a separately configurable component of HCL Discover Data Export.
        Enabling the Event Bus
        Configuring Event bus
        You can edit details of the Event bus configuration by using the Pipeline Editor.
        Sending events to the Event Bus
        Disabling the Event Bus
      - Event Bus data
        The Event Bus receives the request data from each page. If a page has multiple events, then the Event Bus receives a single hit.
      - Additional event bus configuration information
        Additional information on configuring the event bus.
- Session Archiving Guide
Using
Notices

Installation

The Discover Event Bus is a separately configurable component of HCL Discover Data Export.

About this task

To install the Discover Event Bus:

Procedure

In your Discover software distribution, navigate to the following directory:
```
DataExport\Event Bus
```
Copy all files in this directory to the Discover installation directory on the server where HCL Discover Data Export is installed. These files include the following:
- CEPCustomFields.cfg - configuration file for custom Event Bus fields. See Discover Event Bus.
- Discover.Pipeline.CEP.dll - core Event Bus processing
- Discover EventBus.doc - documentation for Event Bus
- DiscoverEventBus.cfg - configuration file for core Event Bus