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Command Line Scanning Jobs

You can run FSA scanning jobs from a command line. First, you create a job using the scanning job definition wizard. Then you reference this job in an FSA command.

In practice, you only run scanning jobs from a command line when scanning a database. This is for security reasons. The command line method allows you to avoid storing database logon credentials in the job definition.

Example command

The command syntax is shown below. This command runs a database scan and prompts you for the logon credentials that the FSA will use to access the target database objects:

wgnfstub /job:<job name> /user /password

Where:

<job name>

Is the name of an existing scanning job. You specify job names in step 1 of the job definition wizard.

/user and /password

(Optional) The purpose of these parameters is to avoid the security risk of storing database credentials in a scanning job definition.

If these parameters are used, the FSA prompts you for the logon credentials that it will use to access the target database objects.

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Database Scanning Jobs