Including the excluded directories back in scans

How to include a directory back in the software scan.

About this task

Some directories are excluded from being scanned by default. Ensure that you do not remove them from the list. It might lead to untested and unsupported results of scan by BigFix Scanner and later reports in applications like BigFix Inventory. For the full list, see: Directories that are excluded by default.
Note: To remove the excluded directories from 'BigFix Scanner Service' (Windows only), if a path delimiter has been used when adding exclusions, you must use a backslash '\' instead of a forward slash '/'. While removing the excluded directories from the legacy 'BigFix Scanner Wscan' for Windows, you must use a forward slash '/'. For example, for 'BigFix Scanner Service', use C:\Program Files.

Perform the following steps to include the excluded directories back in scans:

Procedure

  1. Log in to the BigFix Scanner console.
  2. In the navigation tree, click Sites > External Sites > BigFix Scanner, and then click Fixlets and Tasks.
  3. Select the Remove Excluded Directories task.
  4. Specify which directories are to be removed from the list of excluded directories.
  5. Click Take Action and select endpoints for which you want to apply the changes.

Results

You removed the entries from the list of directories that are excluded from scanning. Those directories are now scanned during the software scan.