General tab

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Option

Description

Interface

Theme

Select whether the AppScan interface uses a dark or light background.

Language

Select the user interface language here. After changing this setting you will need to close and reopen AppScan for the change to take effect.

Recording and viewing browser

Select the default browser that will be used so show the Starting URL, and to browse when exploring manually. Options include the embedded AppScan Chromium browser, as well as other "external" browsers that are installed on your machine.

AppScan documentation

Use online/offline version

Select which version of the Help documentation you want AppScan to open: Online or Offline.

The online version is recommended because it may have additional updates since the version was released. Choose Offline only if you will be using AppScan without an Internet connection.

File and folder locations

Template and scan file folder

Shows the current location of the folder to which your scan and template files are saved. Click Choose to select a different location.

Log file folder

Shows the current location of the folder to which logs are saved. Click Choose to select a different location.

Noise classification file

Shows the location and name of your current Noise classification XML file. Your noise classifications are saved here and applied to all scans run on this machine. Learn more about noise.

You can select a different file to import noise classifications from another machine.

Vulnerable component database

Import file

AppScan announces updates to the vulnerable components database through AppScan News.

If you download the latest version from HCL FlexNet Operations Portal, you must import it here to update the vulnerable component database. Once the import is successful, you can run a scan to observe the updated results.

Clear history

Clear history

This action will clear:
  • Starting URL suggestions based on past use
  • Embedded browser history
  • "Recent scan files" list
  • "Recent templates" list