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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.
Discover Upgrade Manual
Preparing to Upgrade to the Current® Release
To upgrade your HCL Discover solution, review the entire process before you commence the upgrade. The process that you follow varies depending on the number of servers that are deployed in your HCL Discover solution.

Product Overview
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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.
- Installation and Deployment Manual
- Discover Network Capture Application Manual
- HCL Discover Session Archiving Installation Guide
  As you prepare for an installation, you need to gather some items, review hardware and software requirements, and then you can perform the installation.
- Discover Upgrade Manual
  - Overview of the Upgrade Process
    The objective of the upgrade is to minimize downtime and data loss. The recommended approach is to suspend the processing components, letting data spool to disk while the Data Collector collects any unaggregated statistical data. The system can then be upgraded. When it is restarted, it will attempt to work off the spooled data until it catches up.
  - Upgrading and Migrating to New Hardware
    If you are deploying new hardware in conjunction with your upgrade, please complete the upgrade in the following general steps.
  - Upgrades and the web.config file
    If you have customized your configuration by modifying the web.config file, running the Upgrader does not affect your customization.
  - Preparing to Upgrade to the Current® Release
    To upgrade your HCL Discover solution, review the entire process before you commence the upgrade. The process that you follow varies depending on the number of servers that are deployed in your HCL Discover solution.
    - Upgrade preparation
      Upgrade preparation involves performing many tasks as described in the following sections.
    - Getting Started with the Upgrade
      When you are ready to begin your upgrade, complete the following steps just before you begin your upgrade.
    - Next Steps
      Depending on the number of physical servers and the use of Health-Based Routing (HBR) in your Discover deployment, the upgrade process can be straightforward or more involved.
    - Post Upgrade Configurations for 12.2.1
      Perform the following configuratons after upgrading to 12.2.1:
  - Upgrading Discover Software on a Server
    This section describes how to upgrade Discover software on an individual server. You must repeat this basic process on each Windows-based Discover server in the environment and make adjustments to the process as needed.
  - Release Upgrade for All-in-One Deployment
    This section describes the general process for upgrading an All-In-One Discover server. In these configurations, all Discover components are installed on the same physical system.
  - Upgrade for Multi-Server Deployment
    The steps in this upgrade process provide a generalized outline for how to complete an upgrade of a sophisticated multi-machine installation of Discover. For these types of upgrades, services must be stopped in a specific order after which individual Discover servers must be upgraded in the order that is listed.
  - Upgrading the databases to the current release
    This section describes how to upgrade the Discover databases to the latest version of Discover.
  - Post-upgrade Configurations
    After performing the upgrade, complete the following tasks:
  - Post-upgrade Cleanup
    After you complete the upgrade, you should complete the following tasks, if you did not do so already.
  - Testing Your Discover Solution
    After you complete installation and the initial configuration tasks for each licensed Discover product and module, verify the operations of your Discover solution. This section provides a simple procedure for testing end-to-end operations of the Discover solution, with modifications based on optional components that you may have installed.
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.
Cloud-native HCL Discover
Notices

Preparing to Upgrade to the Current® Release

To upgrade your HCL Discover solution, review the entire process before you commence the upgrade. The process that you follow varies depending on the number of servers that are deployed in your HCL Discover solution.

Note:

Access the Registry Editor in Portal Server and navigate to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Unica Discover\DataStore\ReportServer. Right-click and select String Value and provide the following values:
- Value Name: DatabaseType
- Value Data: MSSQL
Click OK.
If you do not have the required version of .NET installed on your Windows Server, install it from the Microsoft Developer Network.
- .NET Runtme 64-bit → https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-6.0.36-windows-x64-installer
- .NET Runtime 32-bit → https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-desktop-6.0.36-windows-x86-installer
- For Hosting Bundle → https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/thank-you/runtime-aspnetcore-6.0.36-windows-hosting-bundle-installer
If you have any questions about the process or the steps that are required to upgrade your Discover solution, contact HCL Discover support.