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Configuration
Configuring Unica Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
Unica Discover Event Manager Manual
Advanced Mode for Events
In Advanced Mode, you can review and modify the actual JavaScript™ function that is called to process the event.
References
EES reference - attribute reference

Configuration
Configuring Unica Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
- Unica Discover Configuration Manual
- Unica Discover Event Manager Manual
  - Discover Event Manager
    Unica Discover Event Manager provides the user interface for defining the event objects used to monitor your visitors' sessions. Here you can configure the events, hit attributes, dimensions, session attributes, alerts, and deviations to monitor customer success and struggle with your web application.
  - Getting Started with Discover Events
    Discover events provide the mechanisms for monitoring mission-critical metrics and other indicators of your web application's performance, including software errors, failures to complete transactions, customer struggles, and more. Through Discover events, IT staff, business managers, and executives can keep tabs on critical aspects of the overall customer experience.
  - Manage Events - Events Tab
    Through the Events tab in the Discover Event Manager, you can define, edit, test, and organize events to monitor specific conditions in your visitors' sessions. Discover events provide a flexible and powerful mechanism for tracking at the most granular level what is happening during a visitor's session.
  - Manage Events - Hit Attributes Tab
    When processing hit data, the Discover event engine searches each hit for patterns of text. These patterns can signify an event of interest, such as the occurrence of the word Sorry in the response, or can bracket a text string of interest, such as the value of a form field. These patterns can be explicitly specified or can be defined using the start and end tags for which an event should look when evaluating a condition or setting a value.
  - Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
  - Manage Events - Session Attributes Tab
    A session attribute is a pre-defined variable that is persistent throughout the life of a Discover session. Session attributes may be used to store various data that may be referenced by events at any point during the session.
  - Manage Events - Alerts Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can define alerts that are triggered based on Discover events or Anomaly Detections. When threshold values are detected in the related event or Anomaly Detection, an alert is generated and delivered in the appropriate format to the designated recipients.
  - Manage Events - Anomaly Detection Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can indicate the events, dimensions, and ratios whose variations you wish to track over time. Through the Anomaly Detection tab, you can track the metrics that are major anomaly detections on your site.
  - Manage Events - Import-Export Tabs
    Through the Import and Export tabs, you can export a set of selected event definitions and all supporting data objects from your current system and import a set that has been exported. Import/export controls enable the easy migration of event definitions from a development environment to testing and staging environments.
  - Event Tester
    Integrated into the Discover Event Manager, the Event Tester enables you to test active events and hit attributes, even if they are saved in draft mode, against sessions that you upload to the server. This integrated tool provides a quick method for validating the event objects you define before you deploy them into the live transaction stream.
  - Advanced Mode for Events
    In Advanced Mode, you can review and modify the actual JavaScript™ function that is called to process the event.
    - Functions
    - Creating a New Report Group for the Current Event
    - Other Commands
    - JavaScript Tutorial
    - External Calls
    - References
      - EES reference - attribute reference
      - EES reference - Discover event reference
      - Event Engine Scripting reference
        The DiscoverJavaScript™ Event Engine is a Javascript-based language running in the Google V8 JavaScript Engine with extensions specific to the Discover data model.
      - Hit attribute reference
      - Session attribute reference
    - Discover EES Tutorial
    - Overview
    - Syntax for Events
    - Extracting Values from Inconsistent Patterns Using Regular Expressions
    - Best Practices for Discover EventEngineScripting
    - Creating Regular Expression Patterns
  - Event Administration
    The section provides an overview of how events are initially installed and stored in the database and later updated based on changes in the Discover Event Manager.

EES reference - attribute reference

As sessions are captured and evaluated in the Short Term Canister, Discover maintains a series of attributes for individual hits in the session and the overall session.

A hit attribute is a numerical or text value pertaining to an individual hit. A hit attribute value may be extracted from the request or response or calculated based on a defined pattern.
- A step attribute is a hit attribute that is applied to step-based data. It can be referenced and behaves exactly like a hit attribute. See "Step-Based Eventing" in the Unica Discover Event Manager Manual.
- See Hit attribute reference.
A session attribute is an attribute that applies to the entire session. In the Short Term Canister, session attributes are initialized when the first hit of a new session enters the STC and can be updated during the session. These values can be extracted from session data or calculated.
Note: Write access to user-defined session attributes is permitted only through the defined action of an event.
- See Session attribute reference.

These references are available for use in the Discover Event Manager. In particular, you may use them as conditions in event definitions.

Note: For information about an individual attribute, move the mouse over the attribute in the Condition step in the Discover Event Manager.

See Manage Events - Events tab.

This section contains reference information about hit attributes and session attributes. In the tables below, you can review the hit attributes and session attributes available for use.

Attribute reference information includes the JavaScript™ for each attribute to reference in Advanced Mode. See Advanced Mode for Events.

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