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  2. 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.

  3. Unica Discover Administration Manual
  4. Discover Management System

    The Discover Management System (Manage Services) centralizes configuration management for Discover systems on Windows™-based hosts.

  5. Manage Services Pipeline Editor

    This section describes how to use the Manage Services Pipeline Editor to create or edit the pipelines for the current server.

  6. Pipeline Status

    This section describes how to view and troubleshoot the pipeline status.

  7. Troubleshoot Pipeline Status

    This section contains information to help troubleshoot issues that are related to the pipeline status.

  8. Advanced

    This section describes the troubleshooting options that are available under the Advanced tab when viewing the pipeline status.

  9. File Management

    You can get files from any Discover server in the environment for local editing and submission.

  • 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
      • Discover Admin Overview

        This section is an overview to the Discover system and its components.

      • 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.

        • Overview of Manage Services

          Manage Services consists of a master server (normally the Portal server) and multiple slave servers, which are all other servers running Discover software, with the exception of Network Capture. The Manage Services master server communicates configuration information to the appropriate slave servers. Each slave then updates the appropriate configuration file or registry.

        • Manage Services Tabs
        • Manage Services Pipeline Editor

          This section describes how to use the Manage Services Pipeline Editor to create or edit the pipelines for the current server.

          • Overview

            Through the Pipeline Editor, you can create or edit the pipelines for the current server.

          • Editing Pipeline Globals

            Through the Pipeline Editor, you can edit global settings that apply to all pipelines on the selected server.

          • Adding Pipelines

            Complete the following steps to create a new pipeline.

          • Building Pipelines

            Complete the following steps to build your pipeline.

          • Editing Pipelines

            To edit the settings for any pipeline, select the pipeline node in the left panel and click Edit.

          • Removing Pipelines

            To remove a created pipeline, select it. Then, click Remove Pipeline at the bottom of the screen. Click OK.

          • Adding Session Agents

            Session agents can be dragged from the Available Session Agents panel to the pipeline name to add them.

          • Editing Session Agents

            To edit a session agent, select it in one of your pipelines. Then, click Edit at the bottom of the window. The session agent properties are displayed.

          • Removing Session Agents

            To remove a session agent, drag it from the pipeline.

          • Saving Session Agents

            You can use the Saved SessionAgents panel to retain configured session agents that you would like to use at a later time.

          • Available Session Agents

            The following session agents are currently available for inclusion in Discover pipelines. Please review the links below for details on implementing session agents in your pipeline.

          • Identify Deprecated Session Agents

            When a system is upgraded, the deprecated session agents are not removed from the available session agents.

          • Pipeline Development Workflow

            If your pipeline is receiving data, you can iterate on it through Manage Services to monitor performance.

          • Configuring the Manage Services Server

            If needed, you can make changes to the configuration for the master Discover Management System server.

          • Restarting Manage Services

            Complete the following instructions to restart the Manage Services server.

          • Reinitializing Manage Services Datastore

            Complete the following steps to re-initialize the Manage Services datastore.

          • Manage Services Components

            The components Discover Management system enables the following basic functionality:

          • Install Manage Services

            Complete the following steps to install Manage Services.

          • Servers

            This section describes how to disable, enable, group, and filter your servers.

          • Components

            This section describes how to manage components.

          • Configurations

            This section describes how to edit, revert, share, and copy configurations in the Pipeline Editor.

          • Pipeline Editor

            The Pipeline Editor is displayed whenever a pipeline configuration is edited. Pipeline Editor manages the Transport Server configuration (DiscoverCaptureSocket.cfg), the Event Bus configuration (DiscoverEventBus.cfg), as well as the various child pipeline configurations used by some of the Session Agents.

          • Jobs

            This section describes how to manage and troubleshoot jobs.

          • Pipeline Status

            This section describes how to view and troubleshoot the pipeline status.

            • View Pipeline Status for a Server

              To view the Pipeline Status for a server, click the Pipeline Status tab and select the desired server from the dropdown menu.

            • Troubleshoot Pipeline Status

              This section contains information to help troubleshoot issues that are related to the pipeline status.

              • Advanced

                This section describes the troubleshooting options that are available under the Advanced tab when viewing the pipeline status.

                • Create a Backup of the Manage Services Data Store

                  To create a backup of the Manage Services data store, complete the following steps.

                • Restore from a Backup of the Manage Services Data Store

                  You can restore information from the Manage Services data store by accessing files created using the Backup option.

                • Export a Configuration Summary

                  You can export a configuration summary by using the Export Config Summary option.

                • Perform Discovery on a Server

                  Initiate® the discovery process by completing the following steps.

                • File Management

                  You can get files from any Discover server in the environment for local editing and submission.

              • Manage Services Errors

                This section describes Manage Services error messages that might be displayed and how to begin troubleshooting the errors.

      • Database Administration

        The Unica 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 Unica 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 Unica Discover and Unica Journey

        Unica 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 Unica Discover and Unica Interact

        Unica 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 Unica Discover system with the Selective Deletion tool.

    • Session Archiving Guide
    • Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual

File management

You can get files from any Discover server in the environment for local editing and submission.

  • For more information on getting files, see Manage Services Advanced Tab.
  • For more information on pushing files to a server, see Manage Services Advanced Tab.
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