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.
    - Parameter definition
      You can define parameters, cookies and headers that you want to exclude from being tested during scans.
    - Parameter names
    - Session IDs
    - Redundancy tuning
      Careful redundancy tuning can significantly reduce scan time.
    - Custom Parameters tab
      The Custom Parameters tab of Parameters and Cookies view in the Configuration dialog box.
    - Custom Header tab
      The Custom Headers tab of Parameters and Cookies view in the Configuration dialog box.
  - Automatic Form Fill view
    Provide AppScan® with valid parameter values for filling forms in your application during the scan.
  - 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 using a Postman Collection
  If you have a Postman Collection of requests to your web API, you can import it and use it as the basis for a scan.
- 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

Parameters and Cookies view

Identify session IDs and list parameters to exclude from the scan.

This view is used to manage four main functions:

Exclude specific parameters, cookies and headers from being tested during scans
Control the default treatment of parameters and cookies ("redundancy tuning")
Define parameters, cookies and headers that have a special format which AppScan might not recognize on its own
Define custom headers


Setting	Description	See
Parameters and Cookies tab	Lets you view, add, edit and delete global parameters that require non-default treatment. For example, your application may have parameters, cookies or headers whose values you do not want AppScan® to manipulate during tests. To make sure that AppScan does not change these parameters and cookies, exclude them from tests. For example, your application might lock a user session if certain cookie or parameter values are changed. You should exclude these parameters from manipulation. If you do not exclude them, AppScan may not be able to successfully complete the scan, as these cookies will lock AppScan out of the application. During the Explore stage, AppScan® automatically detects cookies and HTML parameters that are likely to be session IDs and adds them to the list in this tab. You can manually add cookies, parameters and headers that you know to be session IDs. The columns in this tab are defined in the table below. Note: The Hide/Show template items button lets you filter out items that originated in the scan template, which may not be relevant to the current scan.	Parameter definition
Custom Parameters tab	Lets you add, edit and delete parameters with a custom format that AppScan might not otherwise recognize as such.	Custom Parameters tab
Custom Headers tab	Lets you define non-standard (custom) HTTP header formats. AppScan® must be able to identify parameters in response content and correctly add them to headers it sends to the site, in order to be able to test the site effectively.	Custom Header tab
Redundancy Tuning Defaults	This link (at the bottom of the Parameters and Cookies tab) lets you access and edit the default redundancy tuning applied to all parameters, whether discovered by AppScan® or defined by the user. Note: Changing the specific redundancy tuning of an individual parameter is done as part of Parameter definition Changes to the defaults are not applied retroactively to parameters that have already been defined. This must be done manually for each parameter.	Redundancy tuning

Parameters and Cookies tab fields

The following table summarizes the fields in this tab.


Heading	Options and description
Type	Parameter \| cookie \| custom parameter \| header
Name
Tracking	How to track this parameter or cookie: As a login value As a dynamic value As a fixed value Don't track it at all For more details see Session IDs.
Test Exclude	Defines whether or not to exclude this parameter/cookie/header from testing during the Test stage of the scan.
Redundancy Tuning	Default: The default redundancy tuning is applied to this item Custom: The redundancy tuning for this item is different to the current default
Source	Shows from where AppScan obtained this item: Scan template: Originated in the scan template Login session ID: From the login sequence recorded by the user Multi-step sequence variable: From a sequence recorded by the user Explore Optimizer: From the Explore Optimizer extension User-defined