{"id":4729,"date":"2026-10-05T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/?post_type=support_article&#038;p=4729"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T06:16:21","slug":"how-to-check-when-scheduled-scan-has-started-and-finished-for-elements-linux-protection-or-linux-security-64","status":"publish","type":"support_article","link":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/support-articles\/how-to-check-when-scheduled-scan-has-started-and-finished-for-elements-linux-protection-or-linux-security-64\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check when scheduled scan has started and finished for Elements Linux Protection or Linux Security 64?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Issue:<\/h3>\n<p>How to check when schedule scanning started and finished on Linux Protection or EPP for Servers (Linux)?<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution:<\/h3>\n<p>In the Elements Security Center portal, the timestamp of start and finish last scanning for a Linux Protection device is shown on the <strong>Scan report<\/strong> tab on the device details page.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log in to the Elements Security Center portal\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Navigate to the <strong>Environment &gt; Devices <\/strong>page<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Linux device<\/li>\n<li>Go to the <strong>Scan Report <\/strong>tab<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Note that the scan report shows only last scan and there is no separate scan report in .pdf format to download or export.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Linux scan report in Element portal shows the following details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last scheduled or manual scan start time, finish time and the number of files scanned<\/li>\n<li>Detected threats and the action taken on them\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Files that were unable to be scanned<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On a Linux workstation or server locally, Elements Linux Protection and Business Suite Linux Security 64 output to the system log the scan settings, when the scan has started and when the scan has ended. System log location depends on the Linux distro being used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\/var\/log\/syslog\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>\/var\/log\/journal<\/li>\n<li>\/var\/log\/messages<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The scheduled scan start and finish logs come from the scand process while the scan settings logs come from the lspmd process.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see an example of the timestamps of past scheduled scans that are listed in a system log.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>lspmd [1930]: report {source=scheduled scan] scan schedule changed; schedule={&quot;hour&quot;:15,&quot;minute&quot;:10,&quot;days&quot;:[&quot;friday&quot;]}<\/li>\n<li>scand [5243]: report [source=scheduled scan]: scan started<\/li>\n<li>scand[5243]: report [source=scheduled scan]: scan finished<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For example, on a Ubuntu Linux installation you can easily list the scan settings and the scan start and finish times by using the following terminal command:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grep &quot;scheduled scan&quot; \/var\/log\/syslog<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to check when schedule scanning started and finished on Linux Protection or EPP for Servers (Linux)?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","support_article_product":[99],"class_list":["post-4729","support_article","type-support_article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"source_foreign_id":"000014987","source_version":1,"source_system":"salesforce","source_date_updated":"2026-10-05 06:16:21","import_hash":"e3e11f9e7d6a37eaa1dae91e0b56e9693d8bd43b","vanilla_article_id":"","vanilla_url":"","vanilla_kb_id":"","vanilla_category_id":"","machine_translated":false,"reactions_helpful_yes":"","reactions_helpful_no":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article\/4729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/support_article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"support_article_product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.withsecure.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/support_article_product?post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}