Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
- Scan Configuration Wizards
  You can quickly configure basic scans using the wizards.
- Scan Configuration Dialog Box
  - URL and Servers view
    Configure the Starting URL for the svcan, and any additional servers and domains to be included.
  - Login Management view
    Show AppScan® how to log in to your application.
  - One-Time Password (OTP) view
    If required by your application, configure AppScan® to use OTP when logging in.
  - Environment Definition view
    Environment definition is not essential, but enables AppScan® to safely refrain from sending non-relevant tests during the scan, resulting in a faster and more accurate scan.
  - Exclude Paths and Files view
    You can configure AppScan to ignore certain paths in the application, or specific types of file.
  - Explore Options view
    Define scan limits, link extraction methods and the general Explore method.
  - Parameters and Cookies view
    Identify session IDs and list parameters to exclude from the scan.
  - Automatic Form Fill view
    Provide AppScan® with valid parameter values for filling forms in your application during the scan.
    - Form properties
      Form Properties view of the Configuration dialog box lists the values that AppScan® will use to fill in forms automatically.
      - Exporting and Importing Form Properties
      - Importing a saved ASFF file
  - Error Pages view
    Add strings, regular expressions and URLs to identify your application's custom error pages.
  - Multi-Step Operations view
    Record and manage multi-step operations that are required to reach specifica parts of the application that could otherwise be missed.
  - Content-Based Results view
    Define a logical structure for the application tree, if AppScan® will not be able to do this based on URL structure.
  - Communication and Proxy view
    Configure communication timeout and proxy server settings.
  - HTTP Authentication view
    Add server-level authentication and client-side certificates, if required by the application.
  - 3rd Party Authentication view
    3rd Party Authentication view of the Configuration dialog box lets you configure AWS settings.
  - Test Policy view
    Define and edit the collection of tests that will be sent to the application during testing; the test policy.
  - Test Optimization view
    Apply optimization for faster scans at times in the product lifecycle when speed is more important to you than scan depth.
  - Test Options view
    Additional test options.
  - Privilege Escalation view
    Refer AppScan to scans run using different user privileges, to discover privileged resources that may be accessible to users with insufficient privileges.
  - Advanced Configuration view
    This view gives you access to many advanced registry settings and it should only be used by experienced AppScan users, or when instructed to do so by the support team to troubleshoot a problem.
- Scan file structure
  Explains the basic structure of an AppScan Standard SCAN file.
- Scan templates
  A scan template is simply a scan configuration that has been saved so that you can use it again.
- Changing the configuration during a scan

Form properties

Form Properties view of the Configuration dialog box lists the values that AppScan® will use to fill in forms automatically.

About this task

You can add to or edit the Form Properties that AppScan® uses to automatically fill forms during scanning.

Procedure

To add a new definition, click

(or, to edit an existing form property, select it and click

).

The Form Properties dialog box appears.


Column	Description
Description	A name that describes the parameter.
Parameters	The name, or part of the name, that is used to define this parameter in the HTML. When AppScan finds a field with this parameter name it fills in the value supplied. To enter multiple parameter names in one row, use a comma without a space. Example: Description: Zip Code \| Parameters: zip,postal
Value	The user input that AppScan will send for this parameter. Select Static for most parameter types Dynamic for OTP
Match Type	Defines how AppScan will search for the parameter defined here, and how it relates to field-filling options supplied by the site. Options are "Partial" or "Complete." Complete: The value will be input only for parameters that exactly match one of the text strings in the Parameters field. (For example, the parameter defined as `addr`, will not be used for a field named `address`.) Furthermore, if the field offers a drill-down list of options, this value will be used only if it exactly matches one of the options. Partial: This value will be input for parameters that match or partially match one of the parameter strings listed here. (For example, if the parameter is defined as `addr`, it will also be used for a fields named `address`, or `ADDR`.) Furthermore, if the field offers a drill-down list of options, and none of the options exactly match the value entered here, a close match will be used instead.
URL	If this field is left empty, this value will be used for this parameter regardless of URL. If a specific URL is given, this value will be used for only for parameters that occur in this URL. (You can therefore define a parameter one way for one URL and differently for another.) However, if there is no other row with the same parameters and an empty URL, the value of this row is default for all other URLs too.

Example

Exporting and Importing Form Properties

Importing a saved ASFF file