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 how to use the Manage Services Pipeline Editor to create or edit the pipelines for the current server.
This section describes how to disable, enable, group, and filter your servers.
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.
Through the Pipeline Editor, you can create or edit the pipelines for the current server.
Through the Pipeline Editor, you can edit global settings that apply to all pipelines on the selected server.
Complete the following steps to create a new pipeline.
Complete the following steps to build your pipeline.
To edit the settings for any pipeline, select the pipeline node in the left panel and click Edit.
To remove a created pipeline, select it. Then, click Remove Pipeline at the bottom of the screen. Click OK.
Session agents can be dragged from the Available Session Agents panel to the pipeline name to add them.
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.
To remove a session agent, drag it from the pipeline.
You can use the Saved SessionAgents panel to retain configured session agents that you would like to use at a later time.
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.
When a system is upgraded, the deprecated session agents are not removed from the available session agents.
If your pipeline is receiving data, you can iterate on it through Manage Services to monitor performance.
If needed, you can make changes to the configuration for the master Discover Management System server.
Complete the following instructions to restart the Manage Services server.
Complete the following steps to re-initialize the Manage Services datastore.
The components Discover Management system enables the following basic functionality:
Complete the following steps to install Manage Services.
Disable a server by completing the following steps.
You can enable a server by completing the following steps.
Servers can be grouped by adding a common keyword to each server in a group.
This filtering uses keywords added to a group of servers to filter the servers shown in the WorldView.
This section describes how to manage components.
This section describes how to edit, revert, share, and copy configurations in the 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.
DiscoverCaptureSocket.cfg
DiscoverEventBus.cfg
This section describes how to manage and troubleshoot jobs.
This section describes how to view and troubleshoot the pipeline status.
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.
[ExtendedUserAgent]
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.