User Guide

How to manage scan schedules

A Scan schedule belongs to a Segment and runs discovery on a recurring cadence. Create it while creating a Segment, or later from the Segment view.

Create a Scan schedule

While creating a Segment

  1. Create a Segment and complete the earlier wizard steps.
  2. In Step 4 - Scan schedule, click Create schedule.
  3. Set the recurrence:
    • Daily - run at a specific time, or repeat every N hours.
    • Weekly - choose one or more days, then run at a specific time or repeat every N hours.
    • Monthly - choose the day of the month, then run at a specific time or repeat every N hours.
  4. For a segment using AlloyScan cloud worker, set Cloud start window (minutes). See Cloud start window.
  5. Click Create.

For an existing Segment

  1. Open Network > Segments.
  2. Open the Segment.
  3. In the left panel, next to Next scan, click Create schedule.
  4. Complete the schedule fields.

Cloud start window

For segments using AlloyScan cloud worker, set Cloud start window (minutes) to allow a task to start within a window after its scheduled time. The default is 240 minutes; enter a whole number from 15 to 1440. The window controls when work may start, not how long it may run.

Local-service scan schedules do not use this setting.

Review scheduled scans

The Segment view shows the next scheduled scan. To review existing Scan schedules, open Admin Center > Settings > Scan schedules.

After the scheduled time passes, the Scan log records the scan run.