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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 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.
Installing Data Export
To install Data Export, complete the following steps.

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.
    - Installing Data Export
      To install Data Export, complete the following steps.
      - Deployment options
        Instructions for running the installer for Unica Discover Data Export based on the following Discover deployments: All-in-One, Multi-Server installing on the Portal Server, or Multi-Server installing on a dedicated server.
    - Configuring events for Data Export
      In order for events and their data to be made available for export through Unica Discover Data Export, the Searchable and Reportable check box must be selected in the event definition in the Event Manager. This setting must be selected for each event that you want to export through Unica Discover Data Export.
    - Configuration for the data files option
      To use the data files options, you must customize a set of provided scripts to create a set of database tables to receive the outputted database files and to insert data into the databases.
    - Initial Data Export configuration
      It is necessary to perform configurations of your Unica Discover deployment. Depending on your Discover solution deployment, more configuration might be necessary.
  - 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

Installing Data Export

To install Data Export, complete the following steps.

About this task

Note: Depending on the destination database location and type, more configuration might be required.

Procedure

Install Data Export
Restart Manage Services

If Unica Discover Data Export was installed on a pre-existing server, such as the Portal Server, then the Discover Management Server must be restarted from within Manage Services to complete the Unica Discover Data Export installation.
Create Data Export server

To enable communications between the Discover Portal and Unica Discover Data Export, you must create an instance of the Unica Discover Data Export Server in the Manage Portal page.
Configure data files
If you are using the data files option, configure the two SQL scripts in <Discover_install_directory>\dataextractor\scripts to define the database and tables.
Run test extract
Before you begin configuring large extract jobs that involve a high number of sessions, configure a test extract of no more than three sessions.
Configure permissions
If you modified the ADMIN group and are deploying this product to an existing Discover solution, you must update menu permissions manually for that group. For all other users and groups, you must configure the appropriate permissions.

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