Jira Asset Discovery - cancel scan?

Question

I'm getting ready to kick off a potentially long scan; 50+ total locations and 1500+ total devices.

While I know the scan has minimal impact on desktop/laptop devices, if we start receiving calls about endpoint performance after the scan is started, I want the ability to halt the scan if needed. Does anyone know if this is possible?

We're not using Discovery clients. Scans are centralized from one server. My experience to date is that if I restart the service on the server, a scan continues. I have not experimented with stopping the service altogether.

Alan Bruce · Answer

We have been considering using the SCCM/InTune connection to avoid having another scan/agent running on the network that grabs pretty much the same information.

I would think you could stop the service to stop the scan but I am not 100% sure as I have not tried it. You might be able to test this out during afterhours with a smaller IP address range. Just a though.

Good Luck!

Darryl St_ Pierre · Answer

Thanks for sharing your experience, Alan.

We're trying to avoid the agent as we have a multitude of other agents already deployed on the endpoints for security, management, etc.. It may turn out that we need to pivot on that.

My original plan was to scan by subnets, but the powers above are currently leaning into mass scan. This info may help me to push back.

I'm definitely upvoting your response, but waiting to see if there's an answer to the original question.

Alan Bruce · Answer

Hello Darryl, I would break it down by IP subnets instead of doing all of them at once. We found that the pain point for us was not so much the device being throttled but the import into Assets if the device count was high.

We decided to go with the discovery agent and use the Collector service to schedule the imports into our Cloud instance.