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# Running and Managing Scanners

> For the full documentation index, see: https://docs.mulesoft.com/llms.txt

Scanners typically run on a schedule you or an administrator configured, or manually when you start
a scan. After you configure scanners, you run them day to day. Most of that work happens under
**Providers**, where you manage provider connections, scanners, and scan activity in one place.

> [!NOTE] Automate scanner management using the MuleSoft MCP Platform Server. For details, see
> [list\_scanner\_providers](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mulesoft-mcp-server/reference-mcp-tools-platform#list-scanner-providers)
> and
> [test\_scanner\_connection](https://docs.mulesoft.com/mulesoft-mcp-server/reference-mcp-tools-platform#test-scanner-connection)
> in the MuleSoft MCP Platform Server Tool Reference.

## Scanner Actions

- **Run Discovery Scan**

  Start a manual scan when you want fresh metadata without waiting for the next scheduled window.
  Successful runs update or add services in the matching **Portfolio** catalogs according to your
  rules.

- **View Scanner**

  Inspect connection health, the last completed run, and scan history to verify whether discovery is
  healthy, slow, or failing authentication.

- **Pause Scheduled Runs**

  Temporarily stop scheduled triggers when you need a quiet period—for example during maintenance or
  while you fix credentials—without deleting the scanner.

- **Resume Scheduled Runs**

  Re-enable scheduled scanning after a pause.

- **Scanner Settings**

  Change names, descriptions, credentials, provider scope, or scan-related settings your product
  exposes, then save, so future runs use the new definition.

  For API gateway providers that support policy write, granting the scanner connection’s identity
  the provider’s write scope enables policy write (apply, enable, disable, and remove) on the
  scanner’s discovered APIs. Policy write reuses the same connection you use for scanning. For
  provider-specific write scopes, see
  [Policy Write Prerequisites](https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/exp-scanners-prerequisites-reference#_policy_write_prerequisites).

- **Delete Scanner**

  Remove the scanner from **Providers** when the provider link is no longer authorized or useful.
  Consider the impact on discovered services in **Portfolio** and on dependent teams before you
  delete the scanner.

  > [!NOTE] When you delete an Akamai API Security scanner, the system attempts to remove the Akamai
  > correlation policy from the scanner’s environments. If the removal fails, the correlation policy
  > may remain applied; check **Automated Policies** to verify. Discovered services remain in your
  > portfolio regardless.

  > [!NOTE] Deleting an API gateway scanner used for policy write doesn’t remove policies that were
  > previously applied to the provider’s APIs through policy write. Those policies remain active on
  > the gateway. Anypoint stops tracking them, and you lose the ability to manage them from Anypoint
  > until you reconnect a scanner with the provider’s write scope.

## See Also

- [Adding Scanners from Providers](https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/exp-scanners-add-from-providers)

- [Create a Scanner for Provider Services](https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/exp-services-connect-providers-to-add)

- [Adding Services to Your Portfolio](https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/exp-services-add-to-portfolio)

- [Viewing Service Details in the Portfolio](https://docs.mulesoft.com/general/exp-services-view-details)