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Armor on R8000 does not run Vulnerability Scans
9 days ago I activated the 30 day Armor trial on my R8000 router (Firmware V1.0.4.46_10.1.63) with the primary aim of leveraging the Vulnerability Scan capability for the many devices I have on my n...
Hi sph70 . The vulnerability scans will run. The article you quoted means that a vulnerability scan is done the first time you connect a new device to the network; and weekly thereafter. But that weekly schedule is tricky; unless your devices are on line when the scan is scheduled, the scan will be delayed till the following week. Unfortunately, there is no option for user-triggered scan at this time.
Thank you for the response - but if I interpret it correctly: Armor will scan at some point, but we have no way to know or even predict when and no way to trigger?
I think it a reasonable expectation that when Armor is first activated it must consider all attached devices as "new" and so scan? Even if not I also have devices that first connected to the network after Armor activation as well as multiple devices that are always on and connected since armor was activated. This includes multiple Netgear devices (switches & NAS) that are all hardwired to the R8000.
This only gives the impression that this feature simply does not work at all as at least one of my devices should have triggered based on your description
sph70 . I presume that you check the vulnerability scans at the Netgear Armor Portal, is that correct?
- Yes - I attached a screenshot from the portal to my original post. The only other place I’m aware of that shows the status is the Nighthawk app which also shows no scans performed.
There is nowhere on the R8000 itself that reports anything regarding Armor other than it is enabled.