Change Events Resulting in Full or Incremental Rescans

FlexNet Code Insight 2019 R1

The following table shows the types of change events that result in a full or an incremental rescan for Automated Analysis and Advanced Analysis should you initiate a rescan on your codebase:

Change Events Resulting in Full or Incremental Rescans

Changes to...

Automated Analysis

Advanced Analysis

Details

Codebase files

Incremental rescan

Incremental rescan

Changes in codebase files are determined by the MD5 hash digest of the files.

Automated Analysis rule set

Full rescan

No rescan

Rules are automatically pushed to your Code Insight server through both an internal process and the weekly Electronic Update.

FlexNet Code Insight version

Full rescan

No rescan

This change is usually an upgrade in the Code Insight version.

Scan profile settings

Full rescan

Full rescan

Depending on the scan profile settings that were changed, one or both analysis types will perform a full rescan. Note that changes to settings that apply to source-code matching result in an expensive Advanced Analysis full rescan. See Effects of Scan-Setting Changes on Rescans for more information.

Scan profiles are configured by the Administrator as described in the FlexNet Code Insight Installation and Configuration Guide.

CL version

No rescan

Full rescan

This change is associated with a change to the CL Path value identified in the scan server setup. (This setup is handled by the Administrator, as described in the FlexNet Code Insight Installation and Configuration Guide.)