Schedule or Trigger a Scan

You can use the HPCA Console to schedule a periodic vulnerability scan, compliance scan, or security tools scan – or any combination of the three – on a target device (or group of devices). You can also trigger an immediate scan. There are two steps required:

  1. Entitle a device (or group of devices) to one or more of the Security services. When you install HPCA, the following two services are available in the SECURITY domain:

    As you perform HP Live Network content updates, additional services become available as new benchmarks are added. After you perform your first update, the vulnerability service is renamed, and the (Limited Edition) qualifier is deleted. The <Discover Security Tools> service also becomes available after your first content update.

    For more information, see Entitle A Device for Scanning.

  2. Schedule or trigger a scan from the HPCA Console by creating a job using the Security Connect job action template. For more information, see Create an HPCA Job to Schedule or Trigger a Scan.

    You can also trigger an immediate scan on a single device by performing an agent connect operation from that target device to the SECURITY Domain in the CSDB. Scans are triggered whenever an agent connect operation from a properly entitled target device to the SECURITY Domain in the CSDB occurs. For more information, see Start a Scan from a Target Device.

For information about how HPCA performs a scan, see Scanning Services in Detail.


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