Scheduled Scans
Each schedule shows its target, profile, timing window, last run and a next-run countdown.
Scans → Schedules runs scans for you automatically. Findings flow straight into Change Tracking and Alerts, so a schedule keeps your map current and pings you when something changes.
Create as many schedules as you like — e.g. a light hourly sweep plus a heavy nightly deep scan.
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Target — all subnets or one specific subnet, and which hosts within it:
- Whole range — scans the full CIDR. The only mode that discovers brand-new devices.
- Static / Dynamic / Unknown only — re-scans just the known hosts of that class (faster, targeted; won't find new devices).
- Profile — any scan profile (built-in or custom). E.g. nightly = Full, hourly = Quick.
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Timing — one of:
- Every N hours — optionally starting at a clock time (e.g. "every 6 hours from 03:00" fires 03:00, 09:00, 15:00, 21:00). Cleanest with divisors of 24 (2/3/4/6/8/12).
- On chosen days at a time — e.g. Mon–Fri at 02:00.
- Active window (optional) — "only run between HH:MM and HH:MM". Outside it, a due run is silently skipped until it reopens (crosses midnight fine). Great for keeping hourly sweeps to daytime so nothing light runs during a nightly deep scan. It only gates automatic firing — Run now and liveness ignore it.
Each row shows an enable/disable switch, the last run, and the computed next run (absolute + relative, e.g. "Aug 1, 3:00 AM · in 6h"), plus Run now, edit, and delete.
- Times use your configured Configuration — so "03:00" means 3 AM where you are.
- If a schedule comes due while a scan of that subnet is still running, the run is skipped (and logged in History) so scans never stack.
- A schedule whose window can never contain its fire time shows "never — active window excludes all run times" instead of firing at the wrong time.
- Pair a whole-range Quick hourly schedule (catch new arrivals cheaply) with a static-only Full nightly (deep-scan your servers).
- Overnight scans still run at 3 AM; if you have quiet hours set, their alerts are held for the morning digest — the scan itself always runs. See Notifications.