Overview
This article guides you on using the GFI LanGuard console Activity Monitor to track scanning operations in progress and already completed, check automatic patch downloads, remediation operations, and the program updates history.
Information
The Activity Monitor tab in the GFI LanGuard console enables you to monitor active security scans, remediation jobs, and download operations of missing updates and security definitions.
Monitoring Security Scans
In the Security Scans section, you can monitor all scans currently in progress or already completed. The Interactive (Manual) scan still in progress can be tracked from the Scan tab instead to follow it in real-time. Once such a scan is completed, its results are stored in the Scan Results backend database and subsequently appear in the Activity Monitor.
Manually imported scan results are also displayed here even though this LanGuard instance did not actually perform them.
To monitor security scans, go to the GFI LanGuard console Activity Monitor tab, and from the left panel, click Security Scans.
Drag and drop a column header to the designated area above the first row to group the scans by criteria.
Here you can:
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Select the active scan(s) and click Stop selected scans to stop them.
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View scan result details
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Filter the scans
Filtering Security Scans
You can also configure which scans are displayed in the security scans list:
The table below describes all the available options:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| All scans | Displays all scans. |
| Only last X scans | Displays only the last X scans. |
| Only scans performed in the last X days | Displays only the scans performed in the last X days. |
| Interactive scans | Displays only manual scans. For more information, refer to Manual scans. |
| Scheduled scans | Displays only scheduled scans. For more information, refer to Scheduled scans. |
| Agent scans | Displays only the scans performed on agent computers. |
Monitoring Software Updates Downloads
The Software Updates Download screen enables you to monitor, pause, cancel or change the priority to all the scheduled patch downloads.
The icon in the first column indicates the download status. The table below describes the different states:
| Icon | Description |
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Downloaded: Update downloaded successfully. |
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Downloading: Update is being downloaded. |
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Failed: An error occurred while downloading the update. Refer to the Error column for more details regarding the error encountered. |
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Downloaded: Update downloaded successfully. |
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Canceled: User canceled update download. |
Right-click an entry and select one of the options described below:
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Configure Patch Auto-Download | Enables or disables auto–patch download and used to configure where the patches are stored. For more information, refer to Configuring Patch Auto-Deployment. |
| Edit proxy settings… | Configure the proxy settings used by GFI LanGuard to connect to the Internet. For more information, refer to Configuring Program Updates. |
| Change download priority… | Change the download priority. Select between High, normal, or low priority. |
| Cancel selected downloads | Stop and remove the selected download. |
| Pause all downloads | Temporarily pause all downloads. |
Monitoring Remediation Operations
The Remediation Operations screen enables you to monitor and cancel all the scheduled remediation features within GFI LanGuard.
The view above displayed the status, history, and details of all the running and complete remediation jobs. Here you can:
- Right-click on a remediation job and select Cancel selected deployment to stop the operation.
- Right-click on a remediation job and select Go To associated schedule scan to view a preconfigured scan, which triggered the auto-remediation.
- Study the granular progress details in the Remediation job details section, including the total number of files that have to be downloaded, download progress for each file, and the current operation being executed as part of the remediation job.
The Remediation jobs section of the Remediation tab also enables you to monitor the operations and has a similar level of details and actions.
Monitoring Product Updates
The Product Updates Activity screen enables you to view a history of the product updates performed by LanGuard and the real-time update activity of the LanGuard agents. For more information, refer to Configuring Program Updates.
To monitor LanGuard Agent updates, switch to the corresponding tab.
Clicking on the "+" will expand the update details.