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In order to have the Scan Engine scan targets at specific times of day, or on certain days of the week, we need to set up a "Scan Window".recurring scan that has one or more "Scan Windows" defined.

Prerequisite Steps

First, you need to have your targets and credentials defined and assigned into one or more projects

Second, you need to know how long it takes a manual scan of each project to complete. 
If the scan takes longer to complete than your rescan period things will not work.

Third, you need to work out how often you need to rescan the devices.

Define how often the project should be scanned

Either creating a new project or re-configuring an existing project, you define the "Rescan every ? days" to have a number greater than  or equal to 1. (Leaving this at zero means no automatic rescan)

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Define when certain locations in the project should be scanned

Once the scan targets have been configured for the each location, the scan windows can be configured as follows:

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