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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.
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.
Additional event bus configuration information
Additional information on configuring the event bus.
Log File Connector with delimited data
The Log File Connector sends a delimited message to a log file for each event bus hit. The message is formatted with a delimiter as specified by the configuration.

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.
    - 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.
      - Event Bus pipeline
        The default Event Bus pipeline has the following active session agents:
      - Workflow
        To deliver Discover events to an external complex event processing engine, complete the following steps:
      - Installation
        The Discover Event Bus is a separately configurable component of Unica Discover Data Export.
      - Event Bus data
        The Event Bus receives the request data from each page. If a page has multiple events, then the Event Bus receives a single hit.
      - Additional event bus configuration information
        Additional information on configuring the event bus.
        Sample Event Bus request
        The following request text is a sample output from the Canister to the Event Bus pipeline:
        CEP session agent schema
        The CEP session agent uses a schema to deliver messages to the receiving systems for FILE, TCP (Delimited and XML format), and Coral8 output.
        TCP connector with delimited message
        The TCP connector sends a delimited message to a receiver for each event bus hit. The message is formatted with a delimiter and an optional end-of-record indicator.
        Log File Connector with delimited data
        The Log File Connector sends a delimited message to a log file for each event bus hit. The message is formatted with a delimiter as specified by the configuration.
- Session Archiving Guide

Log File Connector with delimited data

The Log File Connector sends a delimited message to a log file for each event bus hit. The message is formatted with a delimiter as specified by the configuration.

If the text in the message contains the delimiter, then the character is URL encoded in the string. For example, the comma character (,) would be encoded as %2C.
The line length limit is 10,000 characters, including the delimiters.
Note: This output connector should be implemented only on a dedicated file server with a Discover pipeline. This connector allows several input sources to write to the same log file at one time and frees up disk I/O from the main Discover system.

Below the FILE_Directory, a new directory is created for each day of data with a directory name in YYYYMMDD format. The log file names have the following format:


TL_EB_0_YYYYMMDD_mmmm.log

Where:

YYYY - year
MM - month
DD - day
mmmm - Number of minutes past midnight for current day: 0000 - 1439

These files are structured in the following manner:


OutputType=FILE
File Delim: any character or TAB (note: not CSV compliant)
FILE_Delim=|
FILE_Directory=c:\Discover\logfiles
Row Time in minutes - log will be rolled every N minutes
FILE_RollTime=5

Log File schema

The Log connector uses the default schema.

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