Monitoring progress of disconnected scans on IBM i (disconnected scenario)

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IBM i 9.2.5 Available from 9.2.5.

In case of problems with the software scan on IBM i, you can check whether the scan was started or completed, and view some extra information about the scanned directories.

Checking the scanner version

To monitor the scan progress, you must have the scanner in version 2.8.0.0001, or higher. To check the current version, open the /etc/cit/cit.ini file.

CIT_Version = 2.8.0.0001

Checking initiated scans

Information about the started and completed scans is written in the /etc/cit/logs/traceCIT.log file.

16/07/04 15:18:36 E [main.C] seMain:  308 IMPORTANT: ---START--- Software scan started. CIT Version = '2.8.0.0001'
16/07/04 15:20:14 E [cache.C] 2800 IMPORTANT: File system access on '/' (drive: '/:', type: 2, fs: 'os400fs')
16/07/04 15:22:02 E [cache.C] 2835 IMPORTANT: (OK) File system access on '/' (drive: '/:', type: 2, fs: 'os400fs')
16/07/04 15:22:02 E [cache.C] 2800 IMPORTANT: File system access on '/QSYS.LIB' (drive: '/QSYS.LIB:', type: 2, fs: 'qsysfs')
16/07/04 15:25:24 E [cache.C] 2835 IMPORTANT: (OK) File system access on '/QSYS.LIB' (drive: '/QSYS.LIB:', type: 2, fs: 'qsysfs')
...
16/07/04 15:41:31 E [main.C] seMain:  483 IMPORTANT: ---STOP--- Software scan finished with return code=0

Checking scanned directories

Information about directories that are currently being scanned is written in the /etc/cit/logs/traceCIT_scanned_dirs.log file.

2016-07-04T15:20:14 '/'
2016-07-04T15:20:14 '/iso'
2016-07-04T15:20:14 '/maestro'
...
2016-07-04T15:25:23 '/QSYS.LIB/QAUTOMON.LIB'

If the scan is taking too long to complete or hangs on a particular directory, you can stop the job, exclude the directory from scanning, and then repeat the scan.