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 recurring scan that has one or more "Scan Windows" defined.
Prerequisite Steps
- You need to have your targets and credentials defined and assigned into one or more projects
- 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. - 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)
Define when certain locations in the project should be scanned
Once the scan targets have been configured for each location, the scan windows can be configured as follows:
Go into Locations → Scan Windows and click on the "Create" button in order to make a new scan window.
To set up a scan window which will allow devices to be scanned, we need to provide a start date, a recurring time, and a duration in minutes.
In the example below we are setting a scan window to scan devices during normal office hours (this would be suitable to scan end-user desktops/laptops)
