Viewing Scan Results

Every time a scan completes, whether on demand or scheduled, the scan results are automatically saved on your scan history list. Saved scan results provide a view of your risk at a particular moment in time, the time of the scan task. The service also updates each scanned host based on the results so you can access the most current host scan data in reports and other UI views. See Scan Results and Host Scan Data for more information.

From the scan history list, click view for any finished scan to see the complete results in HTML format. When the compliance module is enabled, the scan history list includes results from vulnerability scans and compliance scans. Note that the service uses pre-defined settings for displaying scan results and those settings are not customizable.

To view scan results in HTML format:

1.    Select Scan from the left menu.

2.    From the scan history list, identify the finished scan you want to view in HTML format and click . When the compliance module is enabled, the Type column identifies whether each scan is a vulnerability scan () or a compliance scan ().

The scan results appear online in an HTML report. To better understand results from a vulnerability scan, see Vulnerability Scan Results. To better understand results from a compliance scan, see Compliance Scan Results.

To download scan results in another format:

1.    Select Scan from the left menu.

2.    From the scan history list, identify the finished scan you want to download and click .

3.    Select the download format. Your options are: PDF, HTML pages (ZIP), MHT, XML and CSV (vulnerability scans only).

4.    Click Download.

For vulnerability scan results in XML format, refer to the document Vulnerability Scan Results in XML (PDF) for a description of the DTD associated with the XML output.