Cisco Active Advisor - DESKTOP Scanner version

Chris Schroeder — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 15:21:21 GMT

At my organization, we are not admins on our own machines, and we usually can't install software. So I've been running Cisco Active Advisor Desktop Scanner from one of our monitoring servers. Keep in mind, this is NOT the version that you run from your browser.

A few questions:

1. Is this service going to be supported going forward? I like the data it collects but don't want to spend time with it if it's being retired... I don't see much talk about it here on the forums at all.

2. Regarding the scanner itself, I can put in an ip address or a "range". The scan is a "one time shot" sort of thing. It doesn't keep scanning nor does it remember all the 70+ IP subnet ranges I put in. If I want to do another scan, I have to type them all in again. Would it be possible to request a feature where it remembers the networks we enter so that we can re-run a scan whenever we need to? It would also be nice if it accepted subnets in addition to "ranges".

This application appears to have been written in Java; that adds a bit to my worries about it being phased out - and since it's a free tool nobody could really say much if it was.

Re: Cisco Active Advisor - DESKTOP Scanner version

Alexander Stevenson — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 18:01:56 GMT

Hello Chris,

We're glad you're making good use of this tool. There are a couple of options available to you:

Check out the Cisco Active Advisor Help page
Try sending an email to caa-help@cisco.com

Hope this helps!

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