IBM Proventia Network Enterprise User Manual - Running Ad Hoc Scans
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IBM Proventia Network Enterprise Scanner User Guide, Version 1.3
Chapter 14
Running Ad Hoc Scans
Overview
Introduction
Ad hoc scans are one-time scans that you can run to discover new assets or to assess
existing assets. You can use ad hoc scans for special scanning needs that arise between
refresh cycles for background scans. This chapter explains how to run ad hoc scans.
First time to scan
If you have just installed your Enterprise Scanner agent and you are scanning for the first
time, you may want follow the quick scanning procedure in Chapter 3, "Running Your
First Scans" on page 41.
Scan runtime
results
Ad hoc scans run as command jobs. You can track their progress in the Command Jobs
window as described in Chapter 10, "Monitoring Scans" on page 135.
In this chapter
This chapter contains the following topics:
Topic
Page
Understanding How Ad Hoc Scans Use Policies
192
Expected Behavior for Ad Hoc Scans
193
Running an Ad Hoc Discovery Scan
195
Running an Ad Hoc Assessment Scan
196