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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.
Backing Up Discover
Discover provides multiple mechanisms for backing up your Discover system and your captured data.
Managing Backups
At any time, you can archive event model data to the specified backup directory through the Portal. For example, if you are experimenting with Portal settings or performing significant modifications to your event definitions, you may wish to perform an on-demand backup before beginning to make these changes.

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.
    - Backing Up Discover
      Discover provides multiple mechanisms for backing up your Discover system and your captured data.
      - Configuring Backup Settings
        In the Portal Management page, you can enable daily backups and configure settings for automated daily backups of event model data, which are stored on the Report Server in the designated directory. As needed, Portal backups can be restored, returning your Discover solution to a previously saved state.
      - Overview
        To access Portal backups, select Discover > Manage Portal from the Portal menu. In the left navigation panel, click Backup & Restore.
      - Managing Backups
        At any time, you can archive event model data to the specified backup directory through the Portal. For example, if you are experimenting with Portal settings or performing significant modifications to your event definitions, you may wish to perform an on-demand backup before beginning to make these changes.
        Creating On-Demand Backups
        To create a backup right now, please complete the following steps:
        Restore steps
        Complete the following steps to restore a scheduled or on-demand backup.
        Scenario - Migrating Events between Dev and Test
        Optionally, this backup feature can be used to migrate complete sets of event definitions between Discover environments. For example, if you have been working on event definitions in a Development environment, you can use this backup feature to migrate to your Test environment.
        Managing Your Discover License Key
        Beginning in Release 8.7, licenses for Discover products are managed under the ® Passport Advantage® system, and licenses are no longer embedded in the Discover products.
      - DCBackup and DCRestore
        Implementing a periodic backup schedule protects you from data loss and keeps a record of important sessions for future reference. Although backing up and removing session data on a daily basis is the ideal scenario, you should implement a backup plan that is appropriate for your production environment.
  - 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.
  - 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

Managing backups

At any time, you can archive event model data to the specified backup directory through the Portal. For example, if you are experimenting with Portal settings or performing significant modifications to your event definitions, you may wish to perform an on-demand backup before beginning to make these changes.

About this task

For more information on the directory where backups are stored and other settings, see Configuring Backup Settings.

Note: If backups take more than two minutes, you should consider scheduling during off-peak hours.

Procedure

From the Portal Management page, click the Backup & Restore link.
Click the Backup/Restore link.
The backup is generated and stored in the backup directory. An entry is listed in the Portal Management page.
- On the Report Server, this backup is stored in the specified backup directory and retained until a specified number of backups have been stored there.
  Note: If you wish to retain event model data backups for longer than the number of days specified in this setting, you must configure an task external to Discover to move these backups to a different directory. Older backups are purged from the directory by Discover.
- See Configuring Backup Settings.

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