Welcome
Welcome to the documentation for HCL AppScan Standard version 10.4.0
Getting started
This section provides a short tour of basic product features and procedures, including using the wizard to set up a scan.
Configuration
You configure a scan by choosing settings that best describe your application, and the kind of testing you want.
Manual exploring
Manual exploring enables you to explore specific parts of your application, filling in fields and forms as you go. This can be a way of ensuring that particular areas of the site are covered, and that AppScan has the information needed to complete forms correctly.
Scanning
Learn how to start a scan, and what happens during the scan; how to manually manipulate the Explore stage, and how to export the results of a scan.
Data
Data view is populated with information about the structure of the site during the Explore stage of the scan.
Issues
Issues view provides access to the results of a scan. You can view results at a high level or select specific tests or objects and access more details. These details include how to fix, requests/responses, and differences between the test variants that resulted in issues. You can manipulate the severity of issues, resend tests (with or without modifications), and create reports based on Issues.
Reports
This section describes how to generate reports from the scan results.
Tools
This section explains how to use additional tools provided with HCL AppScan Standard.
- Options dialog box
  This section describes options you can control, to customize AppScan, from the Options dialog box in Tools > Options.
  - General tab
  - Logs tab
    - Enabling Loopback for MS Edge with Windows 10
      Special configuration may be necessary you use Edge as the external browser with Windows 10 OS.
  - Recording Proxy tab
  - Advanced tab
- Web API Wizard extension
  This extension lets you scan using Open API description files. It is available from Tools > Extensions > Web Services Wizard (Open API), and the extension is enabled by default.
- Scan Scheduler
- User-Defined Tests
- PowerTools
  AppScan offers access to five utilities (PowerTools), each providing a specific feature to help you manage your application security or to help you use AppScan.
- Customizing the Tools menu
- Extensions
- Logs
  Logs can help you troubleshooting.
- Searching Results
  You can filter the Result List in any of the views, for specific data.
Integrations
This section describes integrations of other applications with AppScan Standard:
Best practices
This section contains some best practices and use cases for advanced users.
FAQ & Troubleshooting
CLI
This section describes the syntax and options available using the Command line interface.
References
Menus and toolbar summaries, and glossary

Logs tab

Tools > Options > Logs tab


Option	Description
Enable Scan Log	You can enable/disable the scan log, and can use the Customize button to select exactly which items appear in the log.
Enable Traffic Log	The traffic log can be a useful troubleshooting tool.
Monitor memory consumption and disk space	If selected, AppScan checks available virtual and physical memory and disk space, and will stop the scan if one of them drops below the recommended amount. This can be useful if memory or disk space issues are causing AppScan to crash.
Scan log file size	Set the maximum log file size, in MBytes. When the limit is reached the file is saved as a backup and a new log file is opened. (The next time a backup is saved the earlier backup is deleted.) If you have limited space on your hard drive, you may want to limit the size of the AppScan log file.