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.
The Discover Management System (Manage Services) centralizes configuration management for Discover systems on Windows™-based hosts.
This section describes the advanced settings for Manage Services.
This section is an overview to the Discover system and its components.
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.
This section contains administration topics for managing the Discover Portal and features available through it.
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.
The Manage Services WorldView tab provides a top-down perspective on the servers, components, and configurations that the Discover Management System manages in your Discover environment. Through the WorldView tab, you can edit, copy, assign, and review the history of all configurations currently managed by Manage Services.
This section describes how to use the Jobs tab to add, view, or cancel scheduled jobs for various Manage Services tasks.
This chapter describes how to use the Pipeline Status tab to monitor Discover capture and Transport Service pipelines.
Through the Advanced tab, you can import and export Manage Services configurations and config summaries. Additionally, you can execute an auto-discovery operation, which scans Manage Services servers to discover new components and configurations that can be managed through Manage Services.
Through the Manage Services Advanced tab, you can perform full backups of the Manage Services datastore. If needed, backups can be restored to the Manage Services environment.
The Export Config Summary feature creates an .xml file containing all current components and configurations, which can be used to document the initial configuration of the Discover software. This configuration file may also be requested by Discover Customer Support to assist with troubleshooting.
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Manage Services can be instructed to scan the Discover environment for new components and configurations. When a discovery is executed, the Discover Management System examines all registered Discover servers and compares their configurations to the known Manage Services data, making additions, subtractions, and changes as needed.
In some enterprise environments, access to Discover servers may not be available universally. A Discover administrator can use the Get File and Put File commands to retrieve and write files to specific servers without having direct server access.
The Start Manage Services Cleanup button will help the user carry out cleanup on all running Discover Management Servers.
This section describes how to use the Manage Services Pipeline Editor to create or edit the pipelines for the current server.
The Unica Discover datastore runs on top of a set of four Microsoft™ SQL Server databases.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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These external utilities can be used to monitor and update user agent configuration data that is required by Discover.
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.
Use the links below to access reference information on file formats, common standards, and more in use by the Discover system.
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.
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.
You can delete sessions and session fragments from the Unica Discover system with the Selective Deletion tool.