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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 Administration Manual
bot Detection
Most commercial enterprise web applications are subjected to significant traffic from web crawling bots. Short for "robot," a bot is a software agent that navigates websites to extract information about them. Some bots are used by search engines for indexing pages.
Detecting bots
Valid bots identify themselves as user agents of bot type and can be tracked through Discover. For example, when bots are detected, you can identify the pages on your site that have been crawled by specific search engine bots such as googlebot, msnbot, and more.
Masked bots
Some bots do not report themselves as legitimate bots. These bots may attempt to crawl your application for illegitimate purposes or competitive advantages. Discover does not provide direct mechanisms for identifying masked bot activity.

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
  - Discover Admin Overview
    This section is an overview to the Discover system and its components.
  - Discover System Monitoring
    Discover provides several mechanisms for monitoring the health of the Discover system and Discover user activities. This section provides access to the various tools available in the Discover system for monitoring it and its users.
  - Portal Management
    This section contains administration topics for managing the Discover Portal and features available through it.
  - Discover Management System
    The Discover Management System (Manage Services) centralizes configuration management for Discover systems on Windows™-based hosts.
  - Database Administration
    The Unica Discover datastore runs on top of a set of four Microsoft™ SQL Server databases.
  - Report Access Permissions
    Users whose accounts contain the proper permissions may administer Discover reports. Depending on the type of report, permissions to administer individual reports of that type are configured in the report definition.
  - Managing User Agents
    Through Discover, you can monitor the different types of user agents that contact your web application. Through a provided set of data objects, Discover can identify the type of traffic that is requesting resources from your web application and then monitor counts and other information that pertains to the type of user agent. These objects can be used as the source data for developing a useful set of user agent-related reports, enabling you to closely monitor the composition of traffic to your site.
  - Configuring User Agent Detection
    This section describes how to acquire and maintain the configuration files necessary for parsing of fixed and mobile user agents and how to prepare those files for use in the Unica Discover platform.
  - Configuring User Agent Events
    To use the data that is injected into the [ExtendedUserAgent] section by the Discover SessionAgentTLTRef, a Discover administrator must create events that create charts for this data.
  - User Agent Tools
    These external utilities can be used to monitor and update user agent configuration data that is required by Discover.
  - bot Detection
    Most commercial enterprise web applications are subjected to significant traffic from web crawling bots. Short for "robot," a bot is a software agent that navigates websites to extract information about them. Some bots are used by search engines for indexing pages.
    - Enabling bot Detection in the Discover Platform
      Before you begin, you must configure Discover to detect user agents.
    - Detecting bots
      Valid bots identify themselves as user agents of bot type and can be tracked through Discover. For example, when bots are detected, you can identify the pages on your site that have been crawled by specific search engine bots such as googlebot, msnbot, and more.
      - Masked bots
        Some bots do not report themselves as legitimate bots. These bots may attempt to crawl your application for illegitimate purposes or competitive advantages. Discover does not provide direct mechanisms for identifying masked bot activity.
    - bot-Related Data Objects
      Discover provides the following bot-related data objects that can be used for monitoring and reporting on self-reporting bots.
    - Searching for bot sessions
      This section describes how to search for bot sessions.
    - Reporting on bots
      For most reporting situations, you can use the Traffic Type dimension to segment your report to display only bot-related activities.
  - Discover Reference Information
    Use the links below to access reference information on file formats, common standards, and more in use by the Discover system.
  - Integrating Unica Discover and Unica Journey
    Unica Discover and Unica Journey integration works with CEP configuration. The CEP configuration enables the event to be sent to CEP and the external systems. Unica Discover-Unica Journey integration is supported from version 12.1.0.3 onwards.
  - Integrating Unica Discover and Unica Interact
    Unica Discover and Unica Interact integration works with CEP configuration. The CEP configuration enables the event to be sent to CEP and the external systems. Unica Discover-Unica Interact integration is supported from version 12.1.0.3 onwards.
  - Selective Deletion
    You can delete sessions and session fragments from the Unica Discover system with the Selective Deletion tool.
  - ELK Configurations
    Before configuring ELK on Unica Discover, there are some prerequisites:
- Unica Discover Data Export for Data Analysis Administration Manual
- Session Archiving Guide

Masked bots

Some bots do not report themselves as legitimate bots. These bots may attempt to crawl your application for illegitimate purposes or competitive advantages. Discover does not provide direct mechanisms for identifying masked bot activity.

All known and self-reporting bots are maintained in Browscap.csv, which Discover uses to identify user agents.

If you detect a user agent that is not properly captured by Discover, you can add it to UserCap.csv for use by Discover. See "User Agent Tools" in the Discover Administration Manual.

Note: Identifying masked bots may require additional programming and customization. For more information, please contact Discover Professional Services.

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