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Configuring HCL Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
HCL Discover Event Manager Manual
Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
Dimension Objects Provided by Discover
Discover Report Groups
URL/Host/App/Server Report Group

Configuration
Configuring HCL Discover involves setting up and managing Discover user authorization and configuring Discover server components and services that process captured data.
- HCL Discover Configuration Manual
- HCL Discover Event Manager Manual
  - Discover Event Manager
    HCL Discover Event Manager provides the user interface for defining the event objects used to monitor your visitors' sessions. Here you can configure the events, hit attributes, dimensions, session attributes, alerts, and deviations to monitor customer success and struggle with your web application.
  - Getting Started with Discover Events
    Discover events provide the mechanisms for monitoring mission-critical metrics and other indicators of your web application's performance, including software errors, failures to complete transactions, customer struggles, and more. Through Discover events, IT staff, business managers, and executives can keep tabs on critical aspects of the overall customer experience.
  - Manage Events - Events Tab
    Through the Events tab in the Discover Event Manager, you can define, edit, test, and organize events to monitor specific conditions in your visitors' sessions. Discover events provide a flexible and powerful mechanism for tracking at the most granular level what is happening during a visitor's session.
  - Manage Events - Hit Attributes Tab
    When processing hit data, the Discover event engine searches each hit for patterns of text. These patterns can signify an event of interest, such as the occurrence of the word Sorry in the response, or can bracket a text string of interest, such as the value of a form field. These patterns can be explicitly specified or can be defined using the start and end tags for which an event should look when evaluating a condition or setting a value.
  - Manage Events - Dimensions Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can specify data dimensions to track metadata associated with an event. They can be considered the contextual data captured at the moment of event execution.
  - Manage Events - Session Attributes Tab
    A session attribute is a pre-defined variable that is persistent throughout the life of a Discover session. Session attributes may be used to store various data that may be referenced by events at any point during the session.
  - Manage Events - Alerts Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can define alerts that are triggered based on Discover events or Anomaly Detections. When threshold values are detected in the related event or Anomaly Detection, an alert is generated and delivered in the appropriate format to the designated recipients.
  - Manage Events - Anomaly Detection Tab
    Through the Discover Event Manager, you can indicate the events, dimensions, and ratios whose variations you wish to track over time. Through the Anomaly Detection tab, you can track the metrics that are major anomaly detections on your site.
  - Manage Events - Import-Export Tabs
    Through the Import and Export tabs, you can export a set of selected event definitions and all supporting data objects from your current system and import a set that has been exported. Import/export controls enable the easy migration of event definitions from a development environment to testing and staging environments.
  - Event Tester
    Integrated into the Discover Event Manager, the Event Tester enables you to test active events and hit attributes, even if they are saved in draft mode, against sessions that you upload to the server. This integrated tool provides a quick method for validating the event objects you define before you deploy them into the live transaction stream.
  - Advanced Mode for Events
    In Advanced Mode, you can review and modify the actual JavaScript™ function that is called to process the event.
  - Event Administration
    The section provides an overview of how events are initially installed and stored in the database and later updated based on changes in the Discover Event Manager.
- HCL Discover UI SDK Manual

`URL/Host/App/Server` report group

Discover provides four pre-defined dimensions to track contextual information about the activities of visitors to your web application.

These four dimensions are contained in the URL/Host/App/Server report group and are as follows:

Dimension Name

Description

URL

Identifies the URL of the hit

Note: The URL for the root page of your web application is reported as the following:


/defaultpage

Host

Identifies the host of your web application

App

Identifies the application name

Server

Identifies the name of the server hosting your application

On a large and busy website, the values that correspond to these items may rapidly overshadow the valid data of interest. For example, unique URLs may include a wide variety of query parameters. To ensure that the Discover reporting data are clear and concise, dimension values are restricted or normalized to a subset of the values observed by the Discover pipeline.

Note: These values are extracted in the pipeline from the capture stream by the Discover Reference session agent, which must be deployed in your pipeline to capture these values. The Discover Reference session agent provides extra configuration options, including the capture of user interface events on the client and user agent detection. See "Discover Reference Session Agent" in the HCL Discover Configuration Manual.

For more information about configuring pipelines, see "Manage Services Pipeline Editor" in the HCL Discover Administration Manual.

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