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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.
HCL Discover Administration Manual
ELK Configurations
Before configuring ELK on HCL Discover, there are some prerequisites:

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
  - 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 HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL Discover and Unica Journey
    HCL 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 HCL Discover and Unica Interact
    HCL 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 HCL 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 HCL Discover, there are some prerequisites:
    - Configuring ELK
      The Discover installation handles the installation and basic configuration of ELK, its components, and its services.
    - Starting and Stopping the Services
      You can start and stop the FileBeat service and the WinLogBeat service.
    - Configuring the Filebeat Service
      The Discover installer installs the beats to all the components, but you must configure it and start it from Manage Services in the portal.
    - Configuring the WinLogBeat Service
      The Discover installer installs the beats to all the components, but you must configure it and start it from Manage Services in the portal. WinLogBeat service is applicable only to Microsoft Windows-based machines or servers.
    - Accessing ELK Dashboards
      A new menu item, named System Logs, is introduced to access ELK Dashboards.
    - Providing ELK Dashboards access Non-admin Users
      By default, the Administrator has access to all the Dashboards, including the Kibana Dashboards, introduced as part of ELK integration.
    - Verifying the Revisions in FileBeat Service and WinLogBeat Service
      After running the FileBeat Service or the WinLogBeat Service, you can compare the revisions between the new revision and the earlier revision.
  - 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.
  - Support for Okta
    From version 12.1.12, HCL Discover supports Okta authentication for customers who wish to use Okta instead of Microsoft Windows NT Authentication.
- HCL Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

ELK Configurations

Before configuring ELK on HCL Discover, there are some prerequisites:

You must upgrade to HCL Discover 12.1.2.
If you are a new user or an existing user, you must install the new RPM for ELK to install Kibana Dashboard and Elastic search. For more information on installing the RPM, see the topic "ELK Installation" in HCL Discover Installation and Deployment Manual.
You can use ELK on on-premises version as well as the Docker version of Unica Discover.

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