Adding active polling job

For devices known to the application, you can add active polling jobs.

Only users with the Administrator role can add active polling jobs. Adding active polling jobs is available after adding a license key.

The active polling job is configured using the Wizard. The Wizard guides you step by step through the configuration of all required job settings. After the configuration is complete, you can wait for the scheduled scans to start on devices or start the scan job manually.

When adding an active polling job, you can invoke the Configuration Wizard in the following ways:

• Adding a job with blank settings. To do this:
  1. Select the Security audit section.
  2. On the Active polling tab, click Add job.

  The Configuration Wizard settings do not have the default values.

• Adding a job for selected devices. To do this:
  1. Select the Assets section.
  2. On the Devices tab, select the devices for which you want to add an active polling job. You can select no more than 100 devices.
  3. In the toolbar above the devices table, open the Create job drop-down list and select Active polling.

  In the Configuration Wizard settings, a list of devices consisting of the selected devices is generated by default.

To configure job settings in the Configuration Wizard window:

1. If no application user has previously conducted active polling of devices, the wizard window will show a warning regarding the specifics of active polling. Carefully read the warning and confirm that you accept the risks of potential impacts when using the active polling module.
2. In the Select device section of the wizard, create a list of devices for which you want to perform active polling. Select up to 100 devices.

   You can create a list of devices using the Add to job and Delete from job buttons. When you add devices, the application opens a window with a table of devices for selection. You can filter and sort the table to display the desired devices.

3. In the Select parameters section of the wizard, select the check boxes for the specific device information that you want to update using active polling. You can also enable risk detection (the Risks check box) and discovery of topology settings for devices (the Topology settings check box).
4. In the Select methods section of the wizard, do the following:
   1. Select an active polling module.
   2. Select the check boxes for the specific methods that you want to use for getting device information, risk detection, and/or reading topology settings.

      The available methods are grouped based on the connectors that provide the capabilities for active polling of devices. The list contains only the methods that are capable of obtaining the selected information. If a connector cannot be used for active polling of selected devices, available methods are not displayed for this connector (for example, if the connector is disabled or if an address space not containing addresses of selected devices is selected for the connector).

   3. Configure the methods for each connector as needed. For example, for Polling via SSH, specify a port and a credentials secret.

      If a secret with the required credentials has not been added to the application, you can open a new tab in the browser without closing the Configuration Wizard window, connect to the Server and add the secret, and then use the button in the Configuration Wizard window to refresh the list of secrets.

      Methods that require configuring settings are highlighted in red. To update the settings, click the button to the right of the desired method.

5. In the Job configuration section of the wizard, configure the rest of the job settings:
   1. Enter the job name and description.

      You can use letters, numerals, a space, and the following special characters: ! @ # № $ % ^ & ( ) [ ] { } / \ : ; , . - _. The job name must begin and end with any permitted character except space.

      The job name must contain no more than 256 characters. The job description must contain no more than 4,096 characters.

   2. To run the job according to a schedule, enable the Run job according to schedule option and configure the schedule settings:
      • In the Frequency drop-down list, select how often to run the job: Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
      • Depending on the selected option, specify the values for the settings to define the precise job start time.

      The application run the job according to the schedule, provided that the previous start of this job has been completed. If by the time a scheduled job is started its previous launch has the Running status, the application skips the run of the scheduled job.

6. Click Create job or Create and run to close the wizard.

The specified settings are displayed in the job details.

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