Placing the Controller in maintenance mode
An abrupt shutdown of the OpenText ScanCentral SASTController can result in the loss of scans already started on sensors. To prevent this from happening, place your Controller in maintenance mode. After you do, the Controller accepts no new job requests from clients and assigns no queued jobs to sensors.
After the Controller is placed in maintenance mode, sensors complete the scans they are currently running, but accept no new scans. After the Controller is back up and running, the sensors again become available.
If the Controller is in maintenance mode, you can manually shut down any sensor that is not running a scan.
Sign in to Application Security as an Administrator and open the ScanCentral view.
On the navigation pane of the SAST page, select Controller.
- Click START MAINTENANCE MODE.
The Controller receives the maintenance request from Application Security and, if any sensors are running scans, the Controller mode changes from ACTIVE to WAITING_FOR_JOB_COMPLETED. If no job is being processed, the mode changes directly from ACTIVE to MAINTENANCE. At this point, you can safely shut down the Controller.
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