Building Pipelines

Through the Pipeline Editor, you can set up individual pipelines for each port to which the Unica Discover Network Capture Application is forwarding captured data.

• For more information on configuring the Unica Discover Network Capture Application to send traffic to a specific port, see "Configuration" in the Unica Discover Network Capture Application Manual.

By default, a single pipeline is created for you monitoring port 1966 using standard HTTP traffic. A set of pipeline session agents is added to the pipeline based on the installed components in your Discover solution.

To build the pipeline:

• You can change firewall and other global settings for all of your pipelines. See Editing Pipeline Globals.
• You can change the port number and the use of standard or SSL traffic for any pipeline. See Editing Pipelines.
• You can continue to build the session agents of your pipeline. For a list of available session agents, see "Overview of the Capture Pipeline and Session Agents" in the Unica Discover Configuration Manual.
• In this manner, you can build your pipeline until you reach one of the terminal pipeline session agents:
  1. The Canister session agent forwards the session data to a Discover Short Term Canister. See "Canister Session Agent" in the Unica Discover Configuration Manual.
  2. The Archive session agent forwards the session data Discover Archive. See "Archive Session Agent" in the Unica Discover Configuration Manual.
  3. The Null session agent discards the data. For debugging purposes.
  4. You can also point the end of a pipeline to the start of another one.
• Additional details may be managed through manual editing of the appropriate configuration file. See "Pipeline Configuration" in the Unica Discover Configuration Manual.