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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 Management System
The Discover Management System (Manage Services) centralizes configuration management for Discover systems on Windows™-based hosts.
Manage Services Tabs
Manage Services Jobs Tab
This section describes how to use the Jobs tab to add, view, or cancel scheduled jobs for various Manage Services tasks.

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 WorldView Tab
        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.
      - Manage Services Jobs Tab
        This section describes how to use the Jobs tab to add, view, or cancel scheduled jobs for various Manage Services tasks.
        Overview
        The Jobs tab is used to add, view, or cancel scheduled jobs that perform various Manage Services tasks. All defined Manage Services jobs are listed on the right side, and the currently selected job is displayed on the left side.
        Tasks Pane
        In the Tasks pane, you can create a new job or add tasks to an un-submitted job. Tasks are executed in the listed order.
        Jobs Pane
        On the right side of the Jobs tab, you can review all scheduled and completed jobs.
      - Manage Services Pipeline Status Tab
        This chapter describes how to use the Pipeline Status tab to monitor Discover capture and Transport Service pipelines.
      - Manage Services Advanced Tab
        This section describes the advanced settings for Manage Services.
    - 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.
  - 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.
  - ELK Configurations
    Before configuring ELK on Unica Discover, there are some prerequisites:
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

Manage Services Jobs Tab

This section describes how to use the Jobs tab to add, view, or cancel scheduled jobs for various Manage Services tasks.

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