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updatedAt: 2026-03-24T21:10:12.000Z
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# Discovery: Overview | BI Cloud

## What is the Discovery Scanner?

The discovery scanner discovers assets, such as systems, databases, applications, or network devices.  It then onboard assets into Password Safe.

## How is it useful?

The discovery scanner streamlines the process of identifying what exists in your environment. It ensures that all assets are properly tracked.

## How do I access discovery scans?

1. Use a browser to sign in to your BeyondInsight/Password Safe URL.\
   This URL is provided in the BeyondTrust welcome email and includes your site URL followed by /login.
2. From the left menu, click ![Discovery icon](https://files.readme.io/cdaeac438b1440cc0d897b4b86ea1aa2433ecd0e3a727894d4ad1a17f2276c82-discovery.png).\
   The **Discovery** page displays.

## The Scans page

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1. **Left menu:** Easy access to all pages in BeyondInsight/Password Safe, including the [Home](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/cloud-welcome-to-beyondinsight), [Assets](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-assets), [Smart Rules](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-smart-rules), [Discovery Scanner](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-discovery-scans), [Management Systems](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-managed-systems), [Managed Accounts](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-managed-accounts), [Password Safe](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/welcome-to-ps-cloud), [Secrets Safe  ](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-secrets-safe), [Analytics and Reporting](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-analytics-and-reporting), [Configuration](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-config), and [About ](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/docs/bi-cloud-about)pages.

2. **Header:** Navigate to your favorite pages, view your notifications, access your connected apps, and set your account preferences.

3. Select to **Run a New Discovery Scan**.

4. **Tabs:** View Active/Completed Scans or Scheduled Scans.

5. **Filter dropdowns:** Select a filter to refine your results.
   > <details>Filter types</summary>
   >
   > \- **Last Updated filter:** Filter by last updated timeframe.
   >
   > * **Scan State:** Filter by All, Completed, or Active.
   >
   > * **Filter by:** Filter by Agent Name, Workgroup, Scan Name, Scan Start Time, or Scan End Time.
   >
   > <br />

6. **Grid display preferences:** Set display preferences on the Scans grid using the following options represented by icons above the grid:
   * Click ![Refresh icon](https://files.readme.io/f63f0bc8c01bb27da11ae637407e0b19aaa5cc7d3ee52946b2e392861d928afc-refersh.png) to refresh the list, ![Download icon](https://files.readme.io/3cc3e35e3ac6a72ce0bc3747df69a1c29f39b1cb9e45570604098be3bff4b1eb-download-icon.png)to download the list to a .csv file, ![Column chooser icon](https://files.readme.io/aa3bbd3ab81173c9982270aa4d0662090ee69612d772287dcce16d6e49ac18c9-column-chooser.png) to select which columns to display on the page, and![Expand icon](https://files.readme.io/6e2e6f15ab6f9a86c455c6a0acc275b99f59d48343d73024c662e0d258a4da8c-expand.png)to expand the grid.

7. **Scans list columns:**
   > <details>Column Names</summary>
   >
   > \- Agent Name
   >
   > * Workgroup
   > * Scan State
   > * Scan Name
   > * Status
   > * Hosts Found
   > * Last Updated
   > * Progress
   > * Hosts In Range
   > * Created By
   > * Created
   > * Smart Rule
   > * Scan Start Time
   > * Scan End Time
   > * Total Scanners
   > * Scan Template
   > * Summary
   > * Scan Elapsed Time
   > * Processing Elapsed Time

8. **Scans grid:** Displays information based on filter selections.

9. **List navigation options:** Navigate in the Scans list.

## Manage scan jobs

From the **Scans** page, you can perform the following:

* View active, completed, and scheduled scans
* Locate specific scans by using the date, status, agent name, workgroup, scan name, start time, and end time filters
* Use the row actions available from the vertical ellipsis menu for a scan to perform the following:
  * Open the discovery report for a completed scan
  * Stop active scans that are currently running
  * View and edit details for scheduled scans
  * Run completed and scheduled scans now
  * Deactivate scheduled scans
  * Reactivate inactive scans

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> You can view inactive scans by selecting **Inactive** from the **Status filter** above the grid. You can still run inactive scheduled scans and completed scans that are linked to inactive scheduled scans by clicking the vertical ellipsis for the scan and selecting **Run Scan Now**. You can also reactivate inactive scans from the vertical ellipsis menu if desired.

For configuration of Discovery, see [Discovery: Configure](https://docs.beyondtrust.com/bips/v25.3/docs/discovery-configure-bi-cloud).