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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
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.
Adding Values for Reporting
For reporting purposes, Discover provides the Traffic Type dimension, which can be used to segment your reports based on the type of user agent. It pulls values from the Traffic Type system hit attribute.

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.
  - 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 Evaluation Logic
      Self-reporting user agents can be identified through the user-agent string value in the request. Discover matches the values reported in this field to the values in the UserAgent field in the public standard Browscap.csv.
    - User Agent Event Objects
      Discover provides some objects to monitor user agents detected in the capture stream. You can create additional data objects to track all user agent information.
    - Locating a Missing User Agent
      Some User Agents may not be included in either the BrowsCap file.
    - Adding Values for Reporting
      For reporting purposes, Discover provides the Traffic Type dimension, which can be used to segment your reports based on the type of user agent. It pulls values from the Traffic Type system hit attribute.
  - 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.
  - Using the ArchiveConfig utility
    Run the ArchiveConfig utility to configure and execute Selective Archiving.
  - ELK Configurations
    Before configuring ELK on Unica Discover, there are some prerequisites:
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

Adding Values for Reporting

For reporting purposes, Discover provides the Traffic Type dimension, which can be used to segment your reports based on the type of user agent. It pulls values from the Traffic Type system hit attribute.

To create reports that operate on the data presented by BrowsCap, you must acquire the captured values and store them in dimensions you create.

The best method for capturing this data is to create dimensions to store it, if necessary. When you enable logging on those dimensions, you can later download the dimension values, normalize them as needed, in a text file. This file can then be imported as a whitelist set of values back to the dimension through the Discover Event Manager.

See "User Agent Tools" in the Unica Discover Administration Manual.
These values can then be added to dimensions you create in the Event Manager. See "Manage Events - Dimensions Tab" in the Unica Discover Event Manager Manual.

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