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Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
Scan Configuration Dialog Box
Login Management view
Show AppScan® how to log in to your application.
Login tab
Scan Configuration > Login Management > Login tab.
External Login Recorder
When you manually explore using AppScan as recording proxy, this recorder displays traffic received during login, and enables you to edit and approve it for use logging in to the application during the scan.

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.
    - Login tab
      Scan Configuration > Login Management > Login tab.
      - Record login with a browser
      - Record login with an external client
      - External Login Recorder
        When you manually explore using AppScan as recording proxy, this recorder displays traffic received during login, and enables you to edit and approve it for use logging in to the application during the scan.
    - Review & Validate tab
      Scan Configuration > Login Management > Review & Validate tab
    - Session IDs tab
      Scan Configuration > Login Management > Session IDs tab.
    - Advanced tab
      Scan Configuration > Login Management > Advanced tab.
  - 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.
  - 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

External Login Recorder

When you manually explore using AppScan as recording proxy, this recorder displays traffic received during login, and enables you to edit and approve it for use logging in to the application during the scan.

The External Login Recorder opens when you click Configuration > Login Management > Record > Use external device, and is used for recording the login sequence from an external device. For details see Login tab, or the first step of the Web Services Wizard.


Item	Description
Status	Shows whether incoming connections are being recorded, and other status messages.
Listening on port	Shows the current port assigned to the recorder.
Recording Proxy Configuration	Opens Tools > Options > Recording Proxy tab to change the port, or any other recording proxy configurations (for details, see Recording Proxy tab).
Login Requests sent	Shows all requests recorded during the Manual Explore. Requests from domains that are selected in the left pane are shown in black; others are gray.
Stop recording	Stops recording incoming requests, but leaves the dialog box open for review and editing the login sequence. To delete individual requests from the list that are not relevant to the scan, select the request and then click
	Use to delete unwanted requests from the Login sequence. Active only when one or more requests are selected.
Save	Saves the recording and closes the recorder.

Workflow

For the full workflow, see Recording with an external client.

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