Only successful scans count against your license quota.

If the scan fails due to any reason, the failed scan does NOT count towards the license usage. While the scan is running you will see the license count decrease, but eventually if a scan fails, the count will increase.

Asset Based License Vs Scan Based License

Asset based license allows you to scan the same asset multiple times over the license period. whereas scan based license consumes scan quota every time you run the scan.

If you have 5 Scan based licenses and you scanned the 5 IPs, the license will expire. Whereas in case of Asset based license you can scan those 5 IPs N number of times.

The table below summarizes the license usage for various types of scans (Domain, DB etc) for each license type (Asset or Scan based)

Scan Type Asset Based Licenses Scan Based Licenses License
Domain Machines 1 Domain IP = 1 asset license
Regardless of any number of drives on that computer 		1 Domain IP = 1 scan license
Regardless of any number of drives on that computer		 F
Database Servers 1 Database Instance* = 1 asset license 1 Database Instance* = 1 scan license S
Exchange Servers 1 Mailbox server = 1 asset license 1 Mailbox server = 1 scan license E
Unix/MAC/AIX/Linux 1 IP = 1 asset license 1 Unix IP/Server = 1 scan license F
Office 365 1 admin credentials * = 1 asset license 1 admin credentials * = 1 scan license E
Amazon S3 1 S3 Bucket = 1 asset license 1 S3 Bucket = 1 scan license F
SharePoint 1 Home URL = 1 asset license 1 Home URL = 1 scan license S
IMAP Email 1 Email address = 1 asset license 1 Email address = 1 scan license F
File Share 1 File Share = 1 asset license 1 File Share = 1 scan license F
Local Drive 1 Local drive = 1 asset license 1 Local drive = 1 scan license F

Database Instance

  1. An instance could mean a Server or IP address.
  2. If 1 IP address/Server hosts 1 database instance, it counts as 1 scan/asset.
  3. In case of multiple database instances running on 1 IP/Server, each instance counts as a scan/asset.
    For e.g. let’s assume that on one host (10.84.222.1) running 2 named instances “application1” and “application2”, then each will require a separate scan or asset based licenses.

Exchange Server

You need 1 license per Exchange Mailbox server regardless of number of mailboxes present on the server.

Office 365 Scan

In case of Office 365 scanning we need the admin credentials that has “application impersonation” rights on the mailboxes which need to be scanned. Each such “admin” credential used for Office 365 scanning will use 1 scan/asset based license.

File Share Scan scenarios:

There are various ways to scan a File Server where the one physical server or SAN or NAS may contain various Windows or CIFS file shares.

If you have a File Server or File Share which provides multiple shares to connect (either based on User share or Department shares) and you use the File Share scanning method to scan the individual file shares, each share and scan will count as 1 scan or asset license against your license quota.

1 UNC – 1 Scan or 1 Asset license

e.g.

\\server1\share1 = 1 Scan or 1 Asset license

\\server1\share1\subshare1 = 1 Scan or 1 Asset license

\\server1\share2 = 1 Scan or 1 Asset license