Scheduled scans

In addition to manual ad hoc scans, you can also schedule scans. A scan can be scheduled to run either once or at user-defined intervals.

From the Scheduled scans page you can:

• View details about a scan schedule
• Create a one-off scan schedule
• Create a repeating scan schedule
• Add or remove nodes in scheduled scans
• Edit a scan schedule
• Pause and resume a scan schedule
• End and delete scans.

Security Compliance Management gives you many options for scan schedules. You can schedule a one-off scan or a scan that repeats periodically:

• You can set scans to run on individual days of the week, every day, weekdays only, or weekends only.
• You can set scans to run on any day of the month. Be aware that if you, for example, set a scan to run on Day 31, the scan does not run in months that do not have 31 days.

Scheduled scans table

The table on the Scheduled scans page provides the following information:

• Name - The name assigned to the scan.
• Nodes - The number of nodes to be scanned.
• Start - The date and time scheduled for the scan to start according to the selected time zone.
• End - The date and time scheduled for the scan to finish according to the selected time zone.
• Frequency - How often the scan is scheduled to run.
• Last run - Date and time when the last scan of this type started.
• Status - Whether the scan is not currently running (Not started), has completed processing (Ended), or is currently running (Active).