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Re: What is Asynchromous scanning in AppScan SDK?

2009-04-10T15:52:05Z

Hello,
I suggest you post this message at the AppScan user forum.

You can find more information here:

On Apr 10, 9:25 am, Dibyajyoti Ghosh <dibyajyotigh...@gmail.com>
wrote:

What is Asynchromous scanning in AppScan SDK?

2009-04-10T06:25:54Z

Hello Everybody,
After a long time. Finally I managed to put
together an extension which can submit scan. In the AppScan API SDK
IScanManager has two methods Scan & ScanAsync.
Does anybody know what is meant by the ScanAsync & what is the actual
difference between Scan & ScanAysnc in terms of AppScan Scan Engine

Post your messages on the IBM Rational AppScan Forum (hosted on IBM developerWorks)

2009-03-03T08:20:54Z

Hello,

Please feel free to post any questions regarding the AppScan
eXtensions Framework on the IBM developerWorks AppScan forum:

[link]

-Ory Segal

Re: AppScan SDK : Does it provide API to monitor the progress( % scan complete) of a scan?

2009-02-08T09:10:22Z

Hi,

We don't have a specific API that returns the percentage but using
AppScan.Scan.ScanData you can retrieve information needed in order to
calculate percentage.

So for example to retrieve the test percentage you would do the
following:

void ScanData_TestsCountersChanged( object sender,

AppScan SDK : Does it provide API to monitor the progress( % scan complete) of a scan?

2009-02-07T10:51:58Z

Hello Everybody,

I guess this is my 4th post in this forum after a hiatus of almost 10
months now. So far i was busy trying to build an extension for scan
submission using the SDK among other things. So far so good. But there
is a major blocker in this project which is monitoring the scan
progress.

RFE:Connection to CQ and incremental scan

2008-08-04T07:59:14Z

When integrated with CQ it will be nice to have an incremental scan
options.
the sequence should be as follow:
1. Run full scan.
2. Log all bugs in CQ as CQ records.
3. Create a CQ public query to return info for records which are ready
for test.
4. On incremental mode, connect to CQ, run the query and scan only the

Bug in CQ Extension

2008-08-04T07:56:18Z

The ClearQuest extension is assuming there is only one repository
connection.
If an environment have more then one repository, the extension is not
functioning, as it's using the default connection (repository 7.0.0 or
whatever version of CQ is in use, and user db MASTR).
This should be remidiate, by allowing the user to select the

Re: {axf-general} Re: Appscan hangs when it attampts to start scan from Load(....) method in the plugin

2008-06-08T22:41:03Z

Hi Ian,
I'm happy to hear you found a way to make it work. There are various .NET
constraints we need to work with, so starting your extension's thread on a
separate thread is usually a good idea, as it keeps the main GUI thread to
its own rendering and such. You'll find that most extensions in the AXF

Re: {axf-general} Appscan hangs when it attampts to start scan from Load(....) method in the plugin

2008-06-04T18:02:55Z

Update:

After a day or so of fooling around with this, I found out that in
order to work properly, Scan() needs to be called in its own thread.

i.e. if you try to call Scan() directly from the appscan UI, an event
handler, or as in Dibyajyoti's case, the Load() method, it will hang.
This also seems to apply to the SaveScanData() method- If you try to

Re: {axf-general} Appscan hangs when it attampts to start scan from Load(....) method in the plugin

2008-06-02T23:49:07Z

I think I may be running into the same problem as Dibyajyoti- AppScan
hangs when I call Scan().

Currently, I'm putting together an extension that automates the
following steps:

1. Create a new scan from a scan template
2. Call an external script to generate an EXD file
3. Import that EXD file into the current scan

Re: AppScan not loading assemblies correctly/completely?

2008-05-23T22:32:32Z

Update: After a whole bunch of digging, I found that I was having the
problem described here: [link]

That post supplies a workaround which is a bit ugly, but it worked for
me.

--Ian

AppScan not loading assemblies correctly/completely?

2008-05-21T00:05:53Z

I've been having a problem with an extension I'm working on, and I
suspect that it has to do with the way that AppScan is loading
assemblies relating to the extension.

The extension that I'm working on has a set of persistent data that is
represented as a simple collection of classes, which is then

Re: {axf-general} Appscan hangs when it attampts to start scan from Load(....) method in the plugin

2008-05-15T07:33:48Z

Hi dibyajyoti,
What are you trying to achieve with the execution of the scan? Is the goal
to run the scan automatically when AppScan loads?
It looks like this is what the code above is trying to do, and I think there
are some logical and could be some deadlock or timing problems with it.
I would like to suggest several alternatives, depending on what you're

Appscan hangs when it attampts to start scan from Load(....) method in the plugin

2008-05-14T04:37:11Z

Hi everybody,
First of all many thanks Guypo for his valuable suggestion about accessing
the scan feature of Appscan.
This time i'm facing a different challenge :
what i'm trying to do is listed below:
1. Appscan is started.
2. It loads the plugin lets say "MyPlugin"
3. In MyPlugin Load(IAppScan appscan, IAppScanGui appScanGui, string

Re: AXF : Is it possible to launch scan using the SDk?

2008-05-08T17:13:09Z

Hi dibyajyoti,

The Scan method is indeed the method to use to run a scan from a
Pyscan shell.
You can find some examples of how to use this method (in C#, but the
same logic applies) in the code of the Privilege Escalation Runner
extension ([link]
privilegeescalationrunner.aspx ). The extensions on axf.watchfire.com