Suspending And Enabling All Background Scans - IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual

Chapter 11: Managing Scans

Suspending and Enabling All Background Scans

Introduction
Disabling all group
scanning
Enabling group
scanning
Procedure
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You can suspend and enable all scanning for the groups controlled by a Scan Control
policy. When you suspend and enable scanning in the Scan Control policy, it applies to
current and future background scans.
If you stop background scans by disabling all scanning in the Scan Control policy, all
current scans go into the Idle status, and no more are scheduled until you enable scanning
again.
The following occurs when you enable scanning again:
If you...
enable scanning during the same refresh cycle
enable scanning during a later refresh cycle
Table 54: Effects of enabling scanning during the same or a later refresh cycle
To suspend or enable all background scans:
1. In the SiteProtector Console, set up a tab to display asset policies. (See page 74.)
2. On the navigation pane, select a group, and then open the Scan Control policy for that
group.
3. Do one of the following:
If you want to suspend scans, clear the Enable background discovery/assessment
■
scanning of this group check box in the Background Discovery and Background
Assessment sections, for the type(s) of background scanning you want to suspend,
If you want to enable scans, select the Enable background discovery/assessment
■
scanning of this group check box in the Background Discovery and Background
Assessment sections, for the type(s) of background scanning you want to define.
Then...
the job runs again in its entirety, or until the end
of the refresh cycle.
• the job from the previous scan goes into the
Expired state at the end of its refresh cycle.
• if there are interim refresh cycles, no jobs
are started.
• a job is scheduled for the refresh cycle
during which you enabled scanning.
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