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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 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.
How it works
Unica Discover Data Export consists of a user interface, a service that schedules and extracts selected customer session data, and packaged APIs.
Handling exceptions
If the data extraction process receives a socket exception while communicating with the Discover Processing Server, it performs the following retry logic:

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.
    - Features and benefits
      A list of the main features that are used for extraction in Unica Discover Data Export.
    - How it works
      Unica Discover Data Export consists of a user interface, a service that schedules and extracts selected customer session data, and packaged APIs.
      - Scheduling tasks
        You can use the Discover Portal to track and schedule tasks within Unica Discover Data Export.
      - Executing tasks
        Unica Discover Data Export tasks complete the following tasks:
      - Handling exceptions
        If the data extraction process receives a socket exception while communicating with the Discover Processing Server, it performs the following retry logic:
  - 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.
- Session Archiving Guide

Handling exceptions

If the data extraction process receives a socket exception while communicating with the Discover Processing Server, it performs the following retry logic:

Procedure

Tries to ping the Unica Discover Server. If the server is not reachable for some configurable period, it stops processing and logs an error. If there is more than one Unica Discover Server, it attempts to connect to the next Unica Discover Server.
If the Unica Discover Server machine is reachable, it tries to contact the Discover Search Server service by performing a simple command to retrieve the event list. If the Discover Search Server service is not responding for some configurable period, it stops processing and logs an error. If there are multiple Unica Discover Servers, the extractor process attempts to connect to the next Unica Discover Server.

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