Rescanning a Site
The Rescan feature allows you to transition easily from an open or selected scan into the scan wizard with the original scan settings preloaded. You may wish to conduct an identical scan of an updated site (using the same settings that were used for the original scan) to determine if previously discovered vulnerabilities have been fixed and if new ones have been introduced. Alternatively, you might want to tweak some of the settings to improve the crawl or audit.
There are also two options for reusing a scan: Reuse Incremental and Reuse Remediation. For more information, see Reusing Scans.
The rescan functionality is available in two areas: the Rescan button on the scan toolbar and the Rescan button (and shortcut menu) for a selected scan on the Manage Scans pane.
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Do one of the following:
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Open a scan, click Rescan and select Scan Again.
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On the Fortify WebInspect Start page, click Manage Scans; then select a scan and click Rescan.
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Using the Scan Wizard, you may optionally modify the settings that were used for the original scan.
Note: The scan name is set by default to <original_scan_name>-1. If you conduct a rescan of a rescan, the integer appended to the default name will be incremented by one.
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On the last step of the Scan Wizard, click Scan.
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