Introduction
The NetProfiler provides the client side of vulnerability scanning. You must install vulnerability scanning software on a server that is accessible to the NetProfiler in order to manage scanning from the NetProfiler GUI.
The NetProfiler provides both manual and automatic vulnerability scans of hosts on the network. You can initiate a scan manually by right-clicking a host IP address on any report in the NetProfiler and choosing Vulnerability scan on the shortcut menu. Alternatively, you can click Run Scan on the Administration > Integration > Vulnerability Scanning page. You can also set the NetProfiler to automatically initiate a scan in response to any specified traffic event of any specified severity.
Quick scans and Deep scans can be run manually or automatically. The Quick scan is intended to use a shorter list of plugins and perhaps simpler options than the Deep scan. However, their configuration and operation is otherwise the same. Both can be run while you wait or run in the background. Also, they can be run from different scan servers.
Vulnerability scan reports are saved in the Completed Reports table of the Reports > Saved Reports page. They can be viewed, printed, and emailed. They can also be saved indefinitely, like other reports. Vulnerability scan reports are subject to the same disk space management rules as other reports.
The running of vulnerability scans is recorded in the audit log, which Administrators can view on the Administration > Audit Trail page.
Automatic vulnerability scanning