How to Configure Agent Web Domain Discovery
By leveraging the web browser sub-agent, the agent can discover web URLs (high-level, non-specific domains) and record how many times each site is hit. Use the options on the Web Domain Discovery Enable page to configure what machines should discover web sites that are browsed in Internet Explorer, and how specific the discovery should be. Setting up Web URL patterns on Web Domain Discovery Configuration will extend top-level domain discovery to match a Regex expression.
Web Domain Discovery Enable
In order to gather hit counts for all top level domains, such as google.com, at least 1st level discovery must be enabled.
Extend domain tracking to include 2nd level URLs. Examples would be:
- google.com/news
- google.com/maps
- google.com/finance
If level 2 is enabled then 1 hit for google.com/news will add 1 hit for web domain "google.com/news" and 1 hit for web domain "google.com". The same applies for google.com/mail and google.com/finance. At the same time (with enabled 2nd level) 1 hit for google.com will add 1 hit only for web domain "google.com". As a result web domain "google.com" will contain all hits to "google.com..." and web domain "google.com/news" only contains hits for "google.com/news". If you only wish to track web site hit counts for certain machines, you can set up Agent Groups to track a subset of all agent computers.
Web URL Patterns are used to extend top-level domain discovery to match a Regex expression. For example:
^us.*scalable.com\/ .*\/ .*\/ .*\/hr.*\/.*$
Would capture only 4th level URLs starting with the word “hr” from any domain starting with “us” and ending with “scalable.com”, e.g. ussalary.scalable.com/abc/123/xyz/hrsalaryhistory/…. would be captured and counted, but uksalary.scalable.com/abc/123/xyz/hrsalaryhistory/…. would not be captured.