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.
- 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

Scheduled task command line parameters

The table below shows the available command line parameters for use in the Scheduled Tasks dialog box of the Windows® Control Panel.

Parameters are added after the main string in the Add arguments field of Scheduled tasks > Actions tab > Edit Action.

The Scheduled Task Properties dialog box


Command Line Parameter	Function
[space][number]	This number is the timeout, in minutes, for the scheduled scan.
[space][hyphen]retest	Configures the scheduled scan to start from the Test stage, omitting the Explore stage. This might be useful for re-testing a site at intervals, using a source scan that has already explored the site.
[space][hyphen]continue	Configures the scheduled scan to continue from where it left off rather than starting again. This might be useful for re-testing a site at intervals, using a source scan that has already explored the site. Note that when using this option to scan in installments you must also use the saveName switch, so that the scheduled scan overwrites the original one each time it runs. (See Schedule a scan in installments.)
[space][hyphen]saveName[filename]	Defines the name that the scheduled scan will be saved with. When no saveName is defined, AppScan® saves the scheduled scan with the source filename followed by a timestamp.