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

Schedule a new scan

About this task

You can schedule scans using the configuration of the current scan or of a saved scan. The scheduled scans are given the name of the source scan with the date and time appended, and saved in the same folder as the source scan.

Procedure

Click Tools > Scan Scheduler...

The Scan scheduler dialog box appears, listing any scans scheduled so far.
Click New.

The Schedule Settings dialog box appears.
Enter a name for the schedule.
Decide whether you want to schedule the current scan or schedule a loading of a saved scan (*.scan file).

If you choose the current scan, and the current scan is unsaved, AppScan asks you to save the scan as a scan file, to be loaded by the scheduler.
Select the recurrence schedule: daily, weekly, monthly, or once on a specified date and time.
Select the date and time that the first scan will start.
You can optionally set a time limit for the scan, by selecting the Limit Scan Time check box, and entering the maximum duration of the scan in minutes.
Enter your domain name, user name, and password.

These authentication values enable the task to run as if started by the given user; without this information, the task may not be able to run at all.
Click OK.

The schedule name appears in the Scan Scheduler dialog box.