Enabling URL, host, app, server dimensions

About this task

When Discover is initially installed or upgraded, these dimensions are pre-defined for you. In order to enable the capture of values to them, extra configuration may be required.

Note: Management of the URL dimension can be especially important for managing database size. See Managing URL and Other High-Volume Dimensions.

To enable Discover-provided dimensions:

Procedure

  1. Before you begin, you must deploy the Discover Reference session agent in your pipeline.
    • See "Discover Reference Session Agent" in the Unica Discover Configuration Manual.
    • For more information about configuring pipelines, see "Manage Services Pipeline Editor" in the Unica Discover Administration Manual.
  2. When the Discover Reference session agent was deployed and configured, you must enable the logging of values for these dimensions:
    1. In the Dimensions tab, select the URL/Host/App/Server report group in the left panel. Repeat the following steps for each dimension:
      1. Right-click one of the dimensions and select Edit Dimension....
      2. In the Edit Dimension dialog, check whether logging of reference values was enabled.
        • If the Turn Off Logging button is displayed, logging for the selected dimension is enabled.
        • Otherwise, click Turn On Logging to enable logging of reference values for the dimension.
      3. When logging is enabled, the Logging Values date stamp indicates that values is logged for the dimension until the listed date.
        • This date stamp corresponds to the current date plus the number of days that reference log values are retained in the database. For more information about configuring data retention settings, see "Settings" in the Unica Discover Administration Manual.
      4. Click Save Draft.
    2. Repeat the above steps for the other three dimensions.
    3. When you saved drafts that enable logging for all four Discover dimensions, you must save the changes to the server. In the Dimensions tab, click Save Changes.
    4. Logging of the values for the Discover reference dimensions was now enabled.
      • In most cases, a sufficient cross-sample of these values is accumulated in the database within 24 hours.
      • These values are extracted from the capture stream, which is converted into SQL, and submitted to the database once per hour. After initially enabling the logging of these values, you should wait at least an hour before continuing with the following steps.
    5. After at least one hour was elapsed since logging was enabled, you can add values to each dimension from the logged reference values.