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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 Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
Data Export for Data Analysis
Unica Discover Data Export enables flexible export and fluid integration of Discover session data to any external business application to create multi-channel perspectives of your visitors' experience.
Data file integration example
This example uses the data files integration method of Unica Discover Data Export to extract specific URLs, URL Fields, and Cookies and import this data into the Data Files temporary database.

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
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
  - Data Export overview
    Unica Discover Data Export provides you with the ability to analyze and report on data captured by Discover within various third-party solutions, including custom reporting tools and databases, warehouses, business intelligence environments, and web analytics products. Additionally, Unica Discover Data Export enables the creation of a persistent store of session data from your web applications.
  - Data Export Installation/Upgrade
    This section contains preparation information and the required steps to install or upgrade Unica Discover Data Export on an existing Unica Discover system.
  - Data Export for Data Analysis
    Unica Discover Data Export enables flexible export and fluid integration of Discover session data to any external business application to create multi-channel perspectives of your visitors' experience.
    - Data Export configuring tasks
      Through the Discover Portal, you can configure tasks to be run according to schedule by Unica Discover Data Export.
    - Configured Tasks window
      Using the Configured Tasks window you can review, edit, create, and delete configured tasks.
    - Editing tasks or creating new tasks
      When you choose to edit or create a task, you must provide name, schedule, source, and destination information, as well as any content filtering or notification options.
    - Time values in Data Export
      Discover records multiple time values, or timestamps, during the process of a visitor making a request, the web server evaluating it and returning a response, and the response being rendered in the client browser.
    - Data file integration example
      This example uses the data files integration method of Unica Discover Data Export to extract specific URLs, URL Fields, and Cookies and import this data into the Data Files temporary database.
      - Creating the database
        The database is created using SQL files that are in the Discover\DataExtractor\Scripts directory. The two SQL files are CreateDB8x.sql and CreateSchema8x.sql.
      - Changing the database name from DCWEB to DCWEB_TEST
        The following is an example of how to change a database name.
      - Modifying sample load script
        Complete the following steps to modify a sample load script.
      - Creating Data Export task
        Use the following steps to create the extract task.
    - Data Export scheduling tasks
      Through the Portal, you can monitor your scheduled Unica Discover Data Export tasks.
    - Scheduled Tasks window
      In the Scheduled Tasks window, you can review the tasks that were scheduled to run, initiated, or completed.
    - Context menu
      When you select a task and select the three dots in the last column of the task row, you will see the following options:
    - Task execution
      At the scheduled time, Unica Discover Data Export runs the specified task. At the time of execution, Unica Discover Data Export requires that basic Unica Discover services, such as Search Server be available. Additionally, the Discover Extractor Service must be operational.
    - Discover Event Bus
      The Event Bus streams Discover event data from the Short Term Canister, the in-memory database, to a Discover pipeline. The pipeline can then deliver the event data to any system configured to receive it. The ability to send the event data as a stream in real time makes the event bus useful for integrating with real-time systems.
- Session Archiving Guide

Data file integration example

This example uses the data files integration method of Unica Discover Data Export to extract specific URLs, URL Fields, and Cookies and import this data into the Data Files temporary database.

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