Issue state: Open or Noise

Issues not relevant to your application can be designated as "Noise" and can be filtered from the results.

About this task

If AppScan identifies a specific issue that is not relevant to your application (essentially a "false positive", such as an issue existing only in the development environment but not in deployment), you have the option to classify it as "Noise".

Noise definitions are applied as follows:
  • On the workstation where the scan is configured, noise classification are saved. It will be automatically applied to future scans, when the scan is saved if your configuration has the Apply previous noise classifications to this scan option selected. The location of the Noise Classification file is defined in Tools > Options > General tab.
  • When you open a saved scan, even on a different workstation, these issues will be classified as noise for this scan, even if the workstation has different definitions. However, note that if you save the scan on the second workstation, its definitions will be saved to that workstation, overwriting any previous Noise Classification file there.

Procedure

  1. To view only open issues under all severity:
    1. Click filter_iconFilter.
    2. Clear the Noise checkbox.
    3. Click Apply.
  2. To view only noise under all severity:
    1. Click filter_iconFilter.
    2. Select the Noise checkbox.
    3. Ensure the Open checkbox is cleared.
    4. Click Apply.
    Issues marked as Noise are included in the Result list but with gray text.

What to do next

See also:

Changing Issue State

Test options