IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Manual page 59

Task 4: Enable
scanning and define
length of scanning
cycles
IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Guide, Version 1.3
5. For the purposes of testing, choose 2 or three hours each day, including the current
hour or the next two hours so that your background scans can start soon.
You can select the periods of allowed scanning using the following methods:
Note:
If you want to...
allow scanning during
specific hours
at any time
remove all defined scans
periods
Scanning hours are selected; non-scanning hours are not selected.
Note:
6. Select the Assessment Windows tab, and select hours for the assessment windows
just as you did for discovery.
7. Select the Time Zone tab.
8. Select the time zone during which you want the scan windows to be open from the
Time zone for windows defined in this policy list.
Typically, you would choose the same time zone as the time zone of the assets
Note:
in the group.
To enable scanning and to define the length of scanning cycles:
1. On the navigation pane, select the group to scan.
2. Right-click the Scan Control policy, and then select Override from the pop-up menu.
Then...
click and drag your cursor over those hours for each day that you
want to allow scanning.
click Fill All.
All squares turn black.
click Clear All.
All squares turn white.
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