New Scan

This page contains the required information to start an Active Directory security scan from scratch.

New Scan

Mandatory Fields

Scan Name: Name of the scan.

Description: Description of the scan.

Start Time: Starting date and time of the new scan. With the help of this option, you can schedule the scan for any date and time as you wish.

Policy: Scan policy that contains the settings and the customized specifications which will affect the scan. (See details in Policy)

Forest: The Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) of the forest that is going to be analyzed. FSProtect automatically analyzes the submitted FQDN of the forest and includes the parent and child domains/forests in the Active Directory environment to this new scan.

Domain Controller IP Address: IP Address of the domain controller that belongs the to submitted forest. If the related domain or forest contains more than one domain controller, any domain controller IP address which is accessible over the network from the FSProtect machine is accepted.

Username: Name of the user account that is created for scanning the environment during the FSProtect Requirements and Installation phase. As this user requires specific permissions and settings, If you are unsure about whether it satisfies these prerequisites, please check the Requirements and Installation document.

Password: Password that belongs the submitted username.

Optional Fields

Continous Assesment

With the help of the continuous assessment option, recurring scans can be automatically scheduled as daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

Continuous Assessment Frequency

Multiple Forest

If there are multiple forests, that need to be analyzed in a single scan, information that belongs to the additional forests can be added through the Add Forest button.

Added forests can be removed through the Delete Forest button.

Adding multiple Forests