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Administering Unica Discover involves configuring and integrating the Unica Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by Unica Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by Unica Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
Unica Discover Administration Manual
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 Unica Discover platform.
Types of Files
There are several files needed by Discover to collect and display various user agent information for reporting.
browscap.csv
The browscap.csv file contains a list of all known user agents and system information that is related to them. This file is maintained by Gary Keith and can be collected from his website.

Administration
Administering Unica Discover involves configuring and integrating the Unica Discover client framework with your web applications or mobile native applications, installing and administering the databases used by Unica Discover, defining event objects and configuring events, hit attributes, dimensions, and other object attributes used by Unica Discover to monitor mission-critical metrics of your web application's performance.
- Unica 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 Unica 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 Unica Discover platform.
    - Types of Files
      There are several files needed by Discover to collect and display various user agent information for reporting.
      - browscap.csv
        The browscap.csv file contains a list of all known user agents and system information that is related to them. This file is maintained by Gary Keith and can be collected from his website.
      - UserCap.csv
        In some cases, you might need to overwrite the user agent strings and their corresponding data that is available in the public standards. The UserCap.csv file is used to overwrite user agent strings. For example, you might need to correct errors that your enterprise detects in the public standards with more accurate information.
      - UserSupplement.csv
        If you need to add custom user agent strings for fixed or mobile user agents, you can add the configurations to the UserSupplement.csvfile. The UserSupplement.csv file is used for adding new definitions that are not covered in browscap.csv definitions.
    - Reviewing Configuration Files
      Discover includes the User Agent Revealer utility (UserAgentRevealer.exe) for reviewing the contents of the user agent configuration files, which can grow large. You can enter a user agent string into the utility, which compares the provided values against all available configuration files then displays how the Discover installation reports the string.
    - Default User Agent Fields
      These fields are available by default for user agent tracking.
    - Enable extended user agent detection
      After the configuration files are downloaded and prepared for use, you can configure the Discover Reference session agent to use them for user agent detection.
  - 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 Unica Discover and Unica Journey
    Unica 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 Unica Discover and Unica Interact
    Unica 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 Unica Discover system with the Selective Deletion tool.
  - ELK Configurations
    Before configuring ELK on Unica Discover, there are some prerequisites:
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

`browscap.csv`

The browscap.csv file contains a list of all known user agents and system information that is related to them. This file is maintained by Gary Keith and can be collected from his website.

The browscap.csv file is available in various formats but only the .csv file format is supported by Discover. The browscap.csv file is verified by Discover to be in the original format.

Do not change this standard-based file, which is overwritten whenever an update is made from the public standard. Apply new entries or update entries in the UserSupplement.csv and UserCap.csv files.

The browscap.csv file must be downloaded and updated in your Discover system regularly. See "Maintaining the System" in the Unica Discover Installation Manual.

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