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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.
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.

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.
    - 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

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.

Every hit in Discover has a request that contains a [timestamp] section containing the following measurements during the above process. A sample request:


[timestamp]
RequestTimeEx=      2008-06-05T21:49:43.099484
RequestEndTimeEx=      2008-06-05T21:49:43.099484
ResponseStartTimeEx=    2008-06-05T21:49:43.107374
ResponseTimeEx=     2008-06-05T21:49:43.297154
ResponseAckTimeEx=     2008-06-05T21:49:43.333742

These various points are timestamps from the network packets that are exchanged between the client browser and web server.

Discover measurements:

Discover measurement: Description
RequestTimeEx: First packet of the request
RequestEndTimeEx: Last packet of the request
ResponseStartTimeEx: First packet of the response
ResponseTimeEx: Last packet of the response
ResponseAckTimeEx: Back from browser for the response

Note: All values are recorded in microseconds.

These measurements are then used to calculate elapsed time for various activities in the request/response process, as indicated in the following diagram:

Discover timing calculations

Discover Timing Metric: Description
WS_GEN: Web server generation time
RT_GEN: Round trip generation time
TTLB: Time to last byte
NT_GEN: Network time
TTLA: Time to last Ack
TTFB: Time to First Byte (same value as WS_GEN)

Calculated Timing Values (microseconds)

TTFB=7890
TTLB=189780
TTLA=36588
WS_Gen=7890
NT_GEN=226368
RT_GEN=234258

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