New Scan

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

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. Scan will not run until the date selected in Start Time.

Frequency Day

When the Frequency is set to Day, a scans run every specified number of days, starting at the specified start time.

Frequency Week

With the Frequency set to Week, the scans run every specified number of weeks on the selected days, starting at the specified start time.

Frequency Month

When the Frequency is set to Month, the scans run every specified number of months on; - The day specified in Start Time, - The day and week calculated from Start Time.

Frequency Year

When Frequency is set to Year, the scans run every year on; - The day specified in Start Time, - The day, week and month calculated from Start Time.

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.