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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
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.

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.
  - 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.

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.

About this task

Note: Archive Expiration tab lists the DAT files only if you have executed Session Archiving tasks. For more information, see Archiving session data.

Procedure

From the HCL Discover Portal, select Data Export > Session Archiving.
The Session Archiving page appears.
Select the Archive Expiration tab.
The tab lists the session archive DAT files created in all servers.
You can update the expiration date of:
1. Individual Servers
  1. Select the required server from the <All Servers> dropdown box.
  2. Click Update Expiration.
    The Update Archive Expiration dialog appears.
  3. For the Number of days field, type a number greater than zero.
  4. Click Update Expiration Dates.
2. Individual DAT files
  1. Select the required server from the <All Servers> dropdown box.
  2. Select the required DAT file from the list.
  3. Click Update Expiration.
    The Update Archive Expiration dialog appears.
  4. For the Number of days field, type a number greater than zero.
  5. Click Update Expiration Dates.

What to do next

Schedule a selective archiving task by following the procedureArchiving selective session data and in Step 19:

Select Trim Archive.
Check the Active checkbox.
Select the server cotaining the specific DAT file or all DAT files.

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