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Administering HCL Discover involves configuring and integrating the HCL Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by HCL Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by HCL Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
Session Archiving Guide
Session and archive tasks
You use Session Archiving to manage data extractions and move extractions to archives.

Administration
Administering HCL Discover involves configuring and integrating the HCL Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by HCL Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by HCL Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
- HCL Discover Administration Manual
- HCL Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide
  - HCL Discover Session Archiving overview
    The HCL Discover Session Archiving User guide provides information on extracting session data based on a schedule and archiving sessions.
  - Session and archive tasks
    You use Session Archiving to manage data extractions and move extractions to archives.
    - Configuring the SessionArchiving.properties file
      Configure the SessionArchiving.properties file to control error logging, memory caching, and hit processing for LTS.
    - What is a session task?
      Session tasks are used to schedule session data extractions based on servers, data set, and data filters, and then store the data.
    - Extracting session data
      You can create a new session extraction task. Session extraction tasks are used to schedule the session extraction based on servers, data set, and data filters.
    - What is an archive task?
      Archive tasks are used to archive existing data to an Archive Canister.
    - Archiving session data
      You can archive session data. Archive tasks are used to archive the session based on servers, data set, and data filters.
    - Extracting sessions to long-term storage (LTS)
      You can use various methods to extract sessions to LTS.
    - Replaying sessions from an LTS file
      You can use Browser Based Replay to open an LTS file and replay the session.
    - Replaying an LTS file from an extracted PDF session file
      To replay an LTS file from an extracted PDF session file, follow the steps listed here.
    - Viewing tasks
      You can view extraction and archive tasks configured in Session Archiving. Task information includes, ID, Task Name, Enabled, Start Time, and Schedule Type.
    - Editing tasks
      You can edit extraction and archive tasks.
    - Removing tasks
      You can remove extraction and archive tasks configured in Session Archiving.
    - Session Archiving field definitions for extraction and archive tasks
      If you need more information about populating fields during an extraction or archiving task, you can find them here.
  - Scheduled tasks
    You can view the status of scheduled tasks, check task status, run tasks again, stop tasks and disable tasks in Session Archiving.
  - HCL Discover Session Archiving trouble shooting tips
    You may encounter error messages or error situations while using Session Archiving. Use the troubleshooting tips to resolve the issues.
  - HCL Discover Session Archiving metadata fields
    The chapter provides information on HCL Discover Session Archiving metadata fields that can be used in PDF files.
  - Creating a Session Archiving task to extract multiple sessions to long-term storage (LTS)
    You can extract multiple sessions to long term storage (LTS) by creating a Session Archiving task.
  - Archiving session data
    You can archive session data. Archive tasks are used to archive the session based on servers, data set, and data filters.
  - Archiving selective session data
    You can also archive selective session data. Archive tasks are used to archive the selective sessions based on servers, data set, and data filters.
  - Session Archiving field definitions for extraction and archive tasks
    If you need more information about populating fields during an extraction or archiving task, you can find them here.
  - DOM Capture and long term storage (LTS) archiving
    You can use HCL Discover Session Archiving to save DOM Capture sessions as a Long Term Storage (LTS) in a PDF file for meta data and electronic signature.
  - Configuring the SessionArchiving.properties file
    Configure the SessionArchiving.properties file to control error logging, memory caching, and hit processing for LTS.
  - Extracting sessions to long-term storage (LTS)
    You can use various methods to extract sessions to LTS.
  - Using Archive Expiration
    In version 12.1.9, HCL Discover introduced a new tab named Archive Expiration. The archived session data was consuming a lot of space and if went unchecked for a significant time caused low space issues in the server or the allocated space. Archive Expiration ensures that you can remove unwanted or older archives. It also allows you to set shorter retention time for archived data.

Session and archive tasks

You use Session Archiving to manage data extractions and move extractions to archives.

Through the HCL Discover Portal, you can configure session and archive tasks.

Creating tasks requires administrator privileges in your HCL Discover Portal account. If you cannot see the HCL Discover menu in the Portal, you do not have administrator privileges.

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