<h2>Instance Scan</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2024" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2024" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="reference" /><meta name="DC.title" content="Instance Scan" /><meta name="abstract" content="Use ServiceNow Instance Scan to interrogate your instance for configurations that indicate health issues and identify opportunities to address best practices. Instance Scan checks your existing configurations and helps you avoid creating future configuration issues. 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Instance Scan is a tool that can be used as a part of your development operations, release management as well as pre- and post-upgrades." /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2022-08-04" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2022-08-04" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="hs-landing-page" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>Instance Scan</title></head><body id="hs-landing-page"> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1"><span class="ph">Instance Scan</span></h1> <div class="body refbody"><p class="shortdesc"><span class="ph">Use <span class="ph">ServiceNow®</span> <span class="ph">Instance Scan</span> to interrogate your instance for configurations that indicate health issues and identify opportunities to address best practices. <span class="ph">Instance Scan</span> checks your existing configurations and helps you avoid creating future configuration issues. <span class="ph">Instance Scan</span> is a tool that can be used as a part of your development operations, release management as well as pre- and post-upgrades.</span></p> <table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" id="hs-landing-page__simpletable_g33_wwg_vt" border="0" class="simpletable simpletableBody"><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /><col style="width:33.33333333333333%" /><thead></thead><tbody><tr class="strow"><td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry"> <p class="p nowrap"><span class="ph uicontrol">Explore</span></p> <ul class="ul" id="hs-landing-page__ul_wfb_lrn_lw"><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../release-notes/upgrades/reference/upgrade.dita/upgrade.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Upgrade to o</a><span class="ph">Tokyo</span></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../concept/hs-getting-started.html" title="If you are new to Instance Scan, read this overview to learn what the tool can do. Follow the tutorial to create checks and execute scans that uses most basics of Instance Scan features.">Getting started with Instance Scan</a></li></ul> </td><td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry"> <p class="p nowrap"><span class="ph uicontrol">Set up</span></p> <div class="p"><ul class="ul" id="hs-landing-page__ul_gdx_pnr_2jb"><li class="li"><span class="ph">Now Platform</span> feature - active by default</li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../concept/hs-intro-health-check.html" title="Checks are singular focused rules that detect anomalies or opportunities in an instance. These checks can run against tables, records, or metadata. Checks are defined to identify security, upgrade best practices, manageability, user experience and performance vulnerabilities.">Getting started with checks</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-create-health-check.html" title="Create your own checks by implementing the following procedure.">Create a check</a></li></ul> </div> </td><td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry"> <p class="p nowrap"><span class="ph uicontrol">Administer</span></p> <div class="p"><ul class="ul" id="hs-landing-page__ul_iyy_zpr_2jb"><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../concept/hs-dashboard.html" title="The Instance Scan dashboard is a system wide visual representation of the health of your instance. The dashboard helps you to manage and analyze the results of full scan against your instance.">Instance Scan dashboard</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-implement-dashboard.html" title="Compare and analyze the results of the scans in your instance by representing it on the premium Performance Analytics (PA) dashboard.">Implement the Instance Scan dashboard</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-progress-status-full-scan.html" title="You can check the progress status of a scan by checking the progress tracker.">Progress status of a scan</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="hs-review-scans.html" title="After the scans have been executed, you can review them with the findings and results components.">Reviewing of scans</a></li></ul> </div> </td></tr><tr class="strow"><td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry"> <p class="p nowrap"><span class="ph uicontrol">Use</span></p> <div class="p"><ul class="ul" id="hs-landing-page__ul_mgh_jrr_2jb"><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-execute-point-scan.html" title="Execute all applicable checks against a single record, update set or an application by selecting Run Point Scan.">Execute a point scan</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-execute-full-scan.html" title="Execute a scan for the entire instance by selecting Execute Full Scan. Implementing a full scan runs all the active checks present in your instance.">Execute a full scan</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-schedule-full-scan.html" title="Create a schedule to regularly trigger a full scan even when you don’t have an active session. A schedule creates an established baseline for the health of the instance and provides a comparison to configuration and instance health over time.">Schedule a full scan</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hs-execute-test-scan.html" title="Execute a test scan to verify if the check works as expected. The test scan enables you to test a single check instead of a full scan by selecting a single check and selecting Test Check on the Check form.">Execute a test scan</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hc-execute-suite-scan.html" title="Execute suites of available checks against a specific target to have targeted scan results by selecting Execute Suite Scan.">Execute a suite scan</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../task/hc-schedule-suite-scan.html" title="Create a schedule to regularly trigger a suite scan even when you don’t have an active session.">Schedule a suite scan</a></li></ul> </div> </td><td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry"> <p class="p nowrap"><span class="ph uicontrol">Learn</span></p> <div class="p"><ul class="ul" id="hs-landing-page__ul_asq_dsr_2jb"><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../concept/hs-table-cleanup-policies.html" title="Instance Scan offers table cleanup policies to erase previous scan results.">Instance Scan table cleanup policies</a></li><li class="li"><a class="xref" href="../concept/hs-quota-rules.html" title="A timeout determines the execution threshold of a scan from running long scans. For example, any scan running longer than the set time period results in a failure.">Timeout threshold</a></li></ul> </div> </td><td style="vertical-align:top;" class="stentry"> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div> </body></html></div>