>From a user experience perspective, I think James has got a point.
It woud be nice if the web interface had this "quick and dirty scan" page :)

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Matthew Mundell <
[email protected]> wrote:

> > I'd like to be able to easily scan a host with a predefined template. The
> > web interface seems to require me to make a new target entry, and then a
> > new host entry for each host I want to scan. I feel like I must be
> > misunderstanding, as this seems incredibly clunky. Why not just let me
> > say do a scan on host xxx with scan profile xxx in one screen?
>
> The emphasis is on ensuring that there is a way to compare reports
> consistently.  Once a task is created it always refers to the same target
> and config.  This way two reports from the task can easily show what has
> changed, by direct comparison.
>
> I agree that it's a bit clunky.  Maybe we could have a page that creates
> and starts the task and puts you on the report page immediately.
>
> >
> > How should I do this?
>
> I think that leaves you creating a new task for each target.
>
> You could also create one target for all of your hosts, and scan them all
> at once.  The report would however include all hosts.
>
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