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Configuring Unica Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
Unica Discover Event Manager Manual
Event Tester
Integrated into the Discover Event Manager, the Event Tester enables you to test active events and hit attributes, even if they are saved in draft mode, against sessions that you upload to the server. This integrated tool provides a quick method for validating the event objects you define before you deploy them into the live transaction stream.
Event Tester - Select Session Tab

Configuration
Configuring Unica Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
- Unica Discover Configuration Manual
- Unica Discover Event Manager Manual
  - Discover Event Manager
    Unica Discover Event Manager provides the user interface for defining the event objects used to monitor your visitors' sessions. Here you can configure the events, hit attributes, dimensions, session attributes, alerts, and deviations to monitor customer success and struggle with your web application.
  - Getting Started with Discover Events
    Discover events provide the mechanisms for monitoring mission-critical metrics and other indicators of your web application's performance, including software errors, failures to complete transactions, customer struggles, and more. Through Discover events, IT staff, business managers, and executives can keep tabs on critical aspects of the overall customer experience.
  - Manage Events - Events Tab
    Through the Events tab in the Discover Event Manager, you can define, edit, test, and organize events to monitor specific conditions in your visitors' sessions. Discover events provide a flexible and powerful mechanism for tracking at the most granular level what is happening during a visitor's session.
  - Manage Events - Hit Attributes Tab
    When processing hit data, the Discover event engine searches each hit for patterns of text. These patterns can signify an event of interest, such as the occurrence of the word Sorry in the response, or can bracket a text string of interest, such as the value of a form field. These patterns can be explicitly specified or can be defined using the start and end tags for which an event should look when evaluating a condition or setting a value.
  - Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
  - Manage Events - Session Attributes Tab
    A session attribute is a pre-defined variable that is persistent throughout the life of a Discover session. Session attributes may be used to store various data that may be referenced by events at any point during the session.
  - Manage Events - Alerts Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can define alerts that are triggered based on Discover events or Anomaly Detections. When threshold values are detected in the related event or Anomaly Detection, an alert is generated and delivered in the appropriate format to the designated recipients.
  - Manage Events - Anomaly Detection Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can indicate the events, dimensions, and ratios whose variations you wish to track over time. Through the Anomaly Detection tab, you can track the metrics that are major anomaly detections on your site.
  - Manage Events - Import-Export Tabs
    Through the Import and Export tabs, you can export a set of selected event definitions and all supporting data objects from your current system and import a set that has been exported. Import/export controls enable the easy migration of event definitions from a development environment to testing and staging environments.
  - Event Tester
    Integrated into the Discover Event Manager, the Event Tester enables you to test active events and hit attributes, even if they are saved in draft mode, against sessions that you upload to the server. This integrated tool provides a quick method for validating the event objects you define before you deploy them into the live transaction stream.
  - Advanced Mode for Events
    In Advanced Mode, you can review and modify the actual JavaScript™ function that is called to process the event.
  - Event Administration
    The section provides an overview of how events are initially installed and stored in the database and later updated based on changes in the Discover Event Manager.

Event Tester - Select Session Tab

There are two methods of providing a session to the Event Tester:

From Selected Session - When you execute a search through the Discover Portal, you can send the session to the Event Tester through the session list.
- Click the Send to Event Tester icon ( ) next to the session in the session list.
- You can send multiple sessions to the Event Tester from the session list.
- By default, the internal session ID is assigned as the session name. If needed, you can rename it for easier tracking in the Event Tester.
From DCA file - You can save a .DCA file to your local desktop and then upload it through the Event Tester.
- Merging of session fragments is not performed in the Event Tester. Only the segment that is submitted to the Event Tester is available.

Sessions that have been loaded or sent to the Event Tester are displayed in the Select Session tab.

Sessions are stored as standard Canister session data files or as Discover Archive (.DCA) files.

Note: If the .DCA archive contains multiple sessions, only the first session in the archive is tested.

In the Session tab, you select or upload the session containing event and hit attribute data for your test or replay available sessions for further verification.

Run test

To run a test against a session, click the Start Test () icon next to the session you wish to use.

Replay session

To replay a session, click the Replay () icon next to the session.
To replay the currently selected session, click the Replay icon at the top of the page.

Upload session

To upload a .DCA file, click Browse.... Navigate your local computer to select a .DCA file to upload. Click Open. The file is uploaded and selected for testing. Uploaded files are stored in the following directory on the server:


<discover_install_directory>\System\EventTest

To remove a session from the server, click the X next to its name. You cannot remove a session through the Event Tester if it is opened by another application.

You can select a different active Canister server from which to review uploaded DCA files in the drop-down at the bottom of the Select Session tab.

Download session

To download a .DCA session, click the Download ( Download icon. ) icon next to the name of the session.

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