Installing Unica Discover involves planning and preparing your environment, installing and configuring prerequisite software, obtaining the Unica Discover installation files, and running the Unica Discover installer.
The Unica Discover Network Capture Application can be configured through a web-based console or through the configuration files that are stored on the DNCA server. The following information guides you on how to configure the DNCA.
Network Capture Application from Discover captures and records the complete interaction between the visitor and the web application environment by using a network tap or network switch spanning port. The Network Capture Application software features the following benefits:
The following instructions can be used to assist the installation of your Network Capture Application software.
Configuration settings that are related to the Unica DiscoverNetwork Capture Application are available through the DNCA Web Console or, if needed you can use the vi editor to edit the configuration files that are located in /usr/local/dncauser/etc/.
dcx-conf.xml
runtime.conf
Configuration settings that are related to the Unica DiscoverNetwork Capture Application are available through the DNCA Web Console or, if needed, the dcx-conf.xml.
You can use this tab to review and edit the Loaded keys list and Missing keys list. To toggle between the lists, use the appropriate radio button:
The Pipeline tab allows users to edit configuration parameters such as capture, limits, and cookie IDs.
Privacy.cfg
stats.xml
If you cannot login to the web console, you can edit dcx-conf.xml to configure the Unica Discover Network Capture Application.
Listend
Routerd
Configure Multiple Listend-Routerd Pairs (MLRP) to use multiple NICs to capture network traffic in an environment that produces a high volume of network traffic.
You can create SSL pools to group a set of DNCA servers together so that the DNCA servers can share SSL session information.
The Beats tab was introduced to enable, disable, start, stop, and restart the Filebeat service. Open the DNCA application and access the Beats tab.
It is recommended that you always use the latest version of the Unica Discover Network Capture Application suitable for your version of Unica Discover.
The Packet Forwarder is used to capture and forward hits to a cloud-based DNCA that is operating on a virtual machine.
For decrypting transmissions by using the SSL protocol, the Unica Discover Network Capture Application must be provided the SSL keys in use in the transaction stream.
Performance measurement provides details on the Network Capture software performance and timestamp measurements.
The following sections contain important information for configuring DNCA in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux™ environment:
You can monitor the passive capturing to diagnose performance issues.
The maintenance utility performs routine maintenance and logging tasks for Discover DNCA. You can use the utility to help maintain the ability of the DNCA to perform DNCA.
The following content contains frequently asked questions or scenarios that can be used to help isolate or fix an issue with your Network Capture Application.
You can specify a single IP address which can access the web console. Limiting access to a single IP address helps to prevent unauthorized access through an unknown system.
You can improve security by enabling authentication to the web console.
As you prepare for an installation, you need to gather some items, review hardware and software requirements, and then you can perform the installation.
Following section contains configuration steps.
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