Detecting the web beacons

This topic explains how to configure the system to detect web beacons.

Before you begin

• You must have deployed a Web beacon.
• To perform this procedure, you must have Operator-level access, or higher.

To configure the system to detect web beacons

1. In the Real User Analyzer, point to Administration > Data flow settings, and click Web beacons.
2. On the Action menu, click Edit.

3. In the Page-render beacon box, type the name of the web beacon target file.
   Do not include a file path — the system needs only the file name and the extension.

   Note

   You can have more than one page-render beacon, but the system accepts only a single file name for all of your page-render beacon targets. However, you can include wildcard characters in the page-render beacon file name: ? represents one character and * represents multiple characters.
   
   For example, suppose that you have the following page-render beacons:

   • crd_prm_go1.!cm
   • crd_prm_go2.!cm
   • crd_prm_go3.!cm
     
     In the Instrumentation beacons section of the Web beacons page, you would type the following file name in the Page-render beacon box:
   • crd_prm_go?.!cm
4. (Optional) In the User-defined beacon box, type the name of the page-render beacon targets with which you want to identify user-defined page beacons.
5. Click Save.
6. To enable the beacon, click ON.
7. For the system to recognize Page Render Marker web beacon as a component, set up the object detection for the Page Render Marker:
   1. In the Real User Analyzer, open the Administration > Data flow settings > Object type detection rule page.
   2. In the Action menu, click Add.
      
      Adding an object-detection rule
      
   3. For the Type, select Component.
   4. In the Expression field, type the following:
      (url.stem_string contains "/img/sb/crd_prm_go.!cm" ignorecase)
   5. Click Save. The system will detect Page Render Marker web beacon as a component.

To validate web beacon detection

1. Create an object Watchpoint to detect the page-render beacon, and name it PRM Hits.
2. Create a filter for this Watchpoint, which detects the file name of the page-render beacon target file.
    For example, match all objects for which url.stem_string contains crd_prm, ignoring case.
3. Turn the Watchpoint on.
4. In the Real User Analyzer, point to Administration > Data flow settings, and click Web beacons.
5. In the view selector, click Instrumentation beacons, and turn the Page-render beacon on.
   
   The beacon target file appears on the Watchpoint Summary for the new Watchpoint, PRM Hits.