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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
Using the ArchiveConfig utility
Run the ArchiveConfig utility to configure and execute Selective Archiving.

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 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:
  - Securing Interprocess Communication
    Discover 12.1.8 and above supports the use of a new SSL certificate based mechanism for securing all inter-process communication between the Discover servers. This is important in a distributed environment with multiple servers, as the components of Discover communicate with each other over the network, using a variety of ports.
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

Using the ArchiveConfig utility

Run the ArchiveConfig utility to configure and execute Selective Archiving.

To use the ArchiveConfig utility, complete the following steps:

Access the ArchiveConfig utility from the Discover Home folder. The Discover Archive Config panel opens.
To add an Archive, click Add. The Archive Properties panel opens.
1. Provide values for the following fields:
  - Name
  - Port
2. Provide values for the following fields:
  - Path - Provide the path for the parent directory of the CANISTER.dbs directory.
  - Index Path - Provide the path for the parent directory of the Indexes directory.
  Note:
  - If the folder path mentioned for Path and Index Path does not exist, the system automatically creates the folders in the specified path.
  - Ensure that you have access to the drives or the folders where you wish to store CANISTER.dbs and Indexes.
3. For the Portal Server field provide the name of the server or the system.
4. If required, deselect or select the Log Enable field and provide an appropriate value for the following fields:
  - Days to Keep Logs
  - Days to Keep Session Data
5. Click OK. The control passes back to the Discover Archive Config panel.
Click Start or Restart to start or restart the Discover Archive Server service.
Access Session Archiving menu to add Selecting Archiving tasks. For more information, see Unica Discover Session Archiving Guide.

From version 12.1.10, the Discover Archive Config function is also accessible from the Portal. To access the Discover Archive Config function from the Portal, complete the following steps:

Access the Portal.
Navigate to Discover > Manage Services > WorldView.
Perform any one of the following steps based on your Discover setup:
- If it is an all-in-one server setup, within the (Master) server, expand Archive Server.
- If it is a distributed server setup, within the (SAS) server, expand Archive Server.
Select Archive Server configuration. The Discover Archive Config dialog opens.
The steps to perform the archive are similar to the steps performed using the utility. For more information, see the earlier procedure.

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