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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 Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
Data Export for Data Analysis
Unica Discover Data Export enables flexible export and fluid integration of Discover session data to any external business application to create multi-channel perspectives of your visitors' experience.
Editing tasks or creating new tasks
When you choose to edit or create a task, you must provide name, schedule, source, and destination information, as well as any content filtering or notification options.
General tab
Using the General tab, you can configure several elements of a task, including the name, description, scheduling information, daily extraction option, and post command.
Scheduling
The following scheduling options can be applied to your configured task.
Daily extractions
Daily extraction tasks can be configured to extract sessions from today, yesterday, or a specific day further in the past.

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
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
  - Data Export overview
    Unica Discover Data Export provides you with the ability to analyze and report on data captured by Discover within various third-party solutions, including custom reporting tools and databases, warehouses, business intelligence environments, and web analytics products. Additionally, Unica Discover Data Export enables the creation of a persistent store of session data from your web applications.
  - Data Export Installation/Upgrade
    This section contains preparation information and the required steps to install or upgrade Unica Discover Data Export on an existing Unica Discover system.
  - Data Export for Data Analysis
    Unica Discover Data Export enables flexible export and fluid integration of Discover session data to any external business application to create multi-channel perspectives of your visitors' experience.
    - Data Export configuring tasks
      Through the Discover Portal, you can configure tasks to be run according to schedule by Unica Discover Data Export.
    - Configured Tasks window
      Using the Configured Tasks window you can review, edit, create, and delete configured tasks.
    - Editing tasks or creating new tasks
      When you choose to edit or create a task, you must provide name, schedule, source, and destination information, as well as any content filtering or notification options.
      - General tab
        Using the General tab, you can configure several elements of a task, including the name, description, scheduling information, daily extraction option, and post command.
        Scheduling
        The following scheduling options can be applied to your configured task.
        Daily extractions
        Daily extraction tasks can be configured to extract sessions from today, yesterday, or a specific day further in the past.
      - Processing Servers tab
        In the Processing Servers tab, you can specify the Unica Discover Servers from which to extract data. The list of available servers identifies all servers managing Long-Term Canisters in the environment.
      - Data Set tab
        In the Data Set tab, you can specify search criteria to apply to the available session data for the selected time period. Additionally, you can specify custom commands to extract the data and to run after the task was completed.
      - Data Filters tab
        Through the Data Filters tab, you can specify whether to include or exclude types of data that is part of the Discover session dataset.
      - Destination tab
        In the Destination tab, you can select and specify the connection information of the destination for the extract.
      - Notification tab
        In the Notification tab, you can define specific email addresses to receive notification about the status of this task when it is completed, successful or not..
      - Job performance
        Depending on the volume of sessions that are extracted in a job, the extraction process might take multiple hours to complete. You can try the following options to improve performance:
    - Time values in Data Export
      Discover records multiple time values, or timestamps, during the process of a visitor making a request, the web server evaluating it and returning a response, and the response being rendered in the client browser.
    - Data file integration example
      This example uses the data files integration method of Unica Discover Data Export to extract specific URLs, URL Fields, and Cookies and import this data into the Data Files temporary database.
    - Data Export scheduling tasks
      Through the Portal, you can monitor your scheduled Unica Discover Data Export tasks.
    - Scheduled Tasks window
      In the Scheduled Tasks window, you can review the tasks that were scheduled to run, initiated, or completed.
    - Context menu
      When you select a task and select the three dots in the last column of the task row, you will see the following options:
    - Task execution
      At the scheduled time, Unica Discover Data Export runs the specified task. At the time of execution, Unica Discover Data Export requires that basic Unica Discover services, such as Search Server be available. Additionally, the Discover Extractor Service must be operational.
    - Discover Event Bus
      The Event Bus streams Discover event data from the Short Term Canister, the in-memory database, to a Discover pipeline. The pipeline can then deliver the event data to any system configured to receive it. The ability to send the event data as a stream in real time makes the event bus useful for integrating with real-time systems.
- Session Archiving Guide

Daily extractions

Daily extraction tasks can be configured to extract sessions from today, yesterday, or a specific day further in the past.

About this task

These extractions enable you to select a daily slice of sessions for archiving purposes, which can be used to significantly reduce the cost of storage.

To perform a daily extraction:

Procedure

Select the Run Daily Scheduling option.
Select the Daily Extract Option:

Daily Extract Option
Description

Current Day

Extracts sessions from today's date.
Note: To acquire the full day's sessions, the extraction task should be scheduled for just before midnight.

Previous Day

Extracts sessions from yesterday's date.

N-th Day ago

Extracts sessions N days before the current date, whenever the task runs. Specify a value in the textbox for N between 1 and the maximum age of sessions in the queried canisters.
Review the Extraction period to verify that you are extracting from the appropriate date.
Specify the remaining configuration options for the task in the other tabs.
Click Save.

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