Provide the following details when defining a scan schedule for your site.
A title for the scheduled task.
Schedule the scan to run using a specific site or an asset tags. To schedule by site, click the Site button and then select a site from the Site Title list. To schedule by asset tags, click the Tag button and select tags from the Tags list. Sites that map to the selected asset tags at scan run time will be scanned.
Initially, the user who adds the scan schedule is the owner by default. You can edit the schedule after it is saved and select another user in your subscription as the owner.
The maximum number of pages the web crawler will scan for malware.
Go to Account Information to see the maximum pages allowed for your account. Click the About link at the bottom of the screen, and then go to Malware Detection.
The scan intensity level to be used by the scanning engine. Each level represents multiple settings including the maximum number of processes used to scan a single host and packet delay.
High. Scan performance is optimized for maximum bandwidth usage resulting in the fastest possible scan time. As compared to the other levels, more crawling and testing requests are run in parallel and the delay between requests sent to the web application is shorter. Scans at a High performance level may be faster to complete but may overload your network, web server or database. This scan can potentially make your site unavailable during the scan.
Medium. Scan performance is optimized for medium bandwidth usage.
Low. Scan performance is optimized for low bandwidth usage. This level is the recommended setting.
Single occurrence. Select to launch your task only once.
Daily. Select to launch your task every 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, etc. Enter up to 365 days.
Weekly. Select to launch your task every week on the days that you specify. Optionally, schedule the task to launch every 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, etc., up to 52 weeks.
Monthly. Select to launch your task every month on the date that you specify. For example, you may schedule the task to launch on the 25th of every month or schedule the task to launch on the 2nd Thursday of every month. Optionally, schedule the task to run every 2 months, 3 months, 4 months, etc., up to 12 months.
Ends after. Select to set your task to end after a specified number of occurrences. Enter the number of times you want the task to run in the field provided. When the set number of occurrences is reached, the schedule will be deactivated.
Now specify the starting date and time of the scheduled task.
Start Date/Time. Use the date picker to specify the start date and select the time of day for this scheduled task.
Time Zone. Select the local time zone (GMT shift and location) that this schedule applies to. For example, if you're in California, select "(GMT -0800) Pacific Standard Time (PST America/Los_Angeles)". If you're in Rome, select "(GMT 01:00) Central European Time (CET Europe/Rome)". Some time zones include locations that observe Daylight Saving Time and others that do not. For this reason, it's important that you make the correct time zone selection.
Select Activate Notification to configure email notification for this scan schedule. When selected the schedule owner will receive an email notification before the next scan is scheduled to start. Tell us when to send this email - a number of days, hours or minutes in advance of when the next scan will start. If you add recipients they will receive these emails following the configuration settings.
No problem, you can easily send notification emails to selected users. Enter the email addresses for people you want to send an email notification to, before the next scan is scheduled to start. The recipients will receive the email at the time defined under Activate Notification.