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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
Portal Management
This section contains administration topics for managing the Discover Portal and features available through it.
Portal Logs
In the Portal Management page, the Logs section displays the different types of logs created by both the Portal and the Data Service. Each section has its own layout and UI.
Global System Logging Level
The Discover global logging level can be configured through Manage Services.

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.
    - Managing Discover Servers
      In the Discover Servers area, you can review all available Discover servers, which may include Unica Discover Transport Servers, Unica Discover datastores and Unica Discover indexing machines for search, event detection, and session replay.
    - User Administration
      This section details user administration for Unica Discover.
    - General Settings
      General Settings govern alert generation, data collection and retention, email delivery, scorecard management, search configuration, and user account management.
    - Portal Announcements
      Portal announcements are messages displayed to all Portal users upon login. These messages can be used to display current system status, scheduled maintenance windows, or other Discover-related issues.
    - Portal Logs
      In the Portal Management page, the Logs section displays the different types of logs created by both the Portal and the Data Service. Each section has its own layout and UI.
      - Global System Logging Level
        The Discover global logging level can be configured through Manage Services.
      - Data Service
        The Data Service section displays the log entries stored by the Data Service in the Discover database. You can review the timestamp for when the event occurred, the type of event, and the specific log entry.
      - Portal History
        The Portal History section displays logs for the Portal activity for the current user for the current session.
      - Discover Logs and Configuration Files
        In this section, you can select the log files to download into .zip format for a predefined preceding number of days.
    - Backing Up Discover
      Discover provides multiple mechanisms for backing up your Discover system and your captured data.
  - Discover Management System
    The Discover Management System (Manage Services) centralizes configuration management for Discover systems on Windows™-based hosts.
  - 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

Global System Logging Level

The Discover global logging level can be configured through Manage Services.

Note: By default, the global logging level is configured to report errors and status messages only. Changing this value can significantly increase or decrease the volume of log messages and the size of log files.

See "WorldView Tab" in the Unica Discover Administration Manual.

Log File Management

By default, Portal log files are automatically rolled during the day if a log file exceeds 20MB.

The current log filename is appended with a timestamp (in HHMMSS format) and saved.
New log file data for the current date is added to the default log filename for the date. The last log data for the date is always stored in a file that does not include a timestamp.

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