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Chapter 9: Understanding Scanning Processes in SiteProtector
Types of Tasks
Introduction
Common
management tasks
Base management
tasks
Tasks per type of
scan
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A scanning job is organized by tasks. Tasks manage other tasks or subtasks, or they
manage the subtasks that actually scan your network and assets. Several factors—
including whether the scan is for discovery or assessment—influence which types of tasks
a scan job contains. This topic describes the types of tasks in a scan and explains which
apply to discovery and which apply to assessment scans.
For examples of tasks displayed in the SiteProtector Console, see Chapter 10,
Note:
"Monitoring Scans" on page 135.
Every scan, whether for discovery or assessment, includes the following management
tasks:
Management Task
A job-level task
One or more Parent-level
tasks
Table 44: Common management tasks for discovery and assessment scans
For assessment scans, Enterprise Scanner uses a base task for each group in the scan. The
base task manages the scanning tasks for each criticality in a group. The base task is
identified as Base Assessment Scan for Group .
Table 45 explains the tasks needed for discovery and assessment scans:
Scan Type
Number of Tasks
Discovery
1 job-level task
1 parent task
1 scanning task
Note: There is no way to prioritize the order in which a discovery scan scans IP
addresses, so there is no reason to divide the job into more than one scanning
task. The scanning task is divided into subtasks, however, based on the
maximum number of IP addresses allowed per subtask.
Assessment
1 job-level task
1 parent task
1 base task for each group
1 scanning task for each asset criticality level represented in each group
Table 45: Tasks per type of scan
Description
A task that appears once for each type of scan. It is identified by
the name given to the scan.
A task that appears for each group and subgroup affected by the
scan. It is identified by the following components:
•
Parent
•
, such as Ad Hoc Discovery or Ad Hoc
Type_of_Scan
Assessment
•
Name_of_Asset_Group
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