📄️ Technical Analysis Concepts
Analysis Process
📄️ Analyzing a Scan Manually
Manual analysis is how automatic analysis gets its data. It's intended to be as simple as possible while still ensuring each organization using Xylok can set their baseline to meet their particular system's requirements. The first time scan data is collected on a system, this process will take longer than the average analysis effort in Xylok. Repeat scans take far less effort because Xylok's Automatic Analysis will match existing data with the new data and apply the same markings.
📄️ Automatic Analysis
Automatic Analysis (AA) within Xylok is a key part of increasing analysis speed. To run AA on imported data, click the "Auto Analyze" button while viewing a scan, acknowledge the message, and wait for confirmation that automatic analysis has completed.
📄️ Accessing Scans
Scan List
📄️ Automatic Machine Data Collection
Xylok has the ability to automatically fill in most of the optional information for machines that would otherwise take a lot of time to enter in manually. The process to do this involves re-scanning any machine that didn't previously use the Xylok OS Baseline benchmark. However, Xylok will continue to add automated features that build off of this benchmark, and from now on will include this benchmark on all scans for machines automatically.
📄️ Comparing Scans
Using the Scan Options -> Compare button when viewing a scan, a user can compare this scan vs. a previous scan of the same system or another system.
📄️ Deleting Scans
Unlike some Xylok deletion options, deleted scans are permanently gone. The only way to recover the deleted data is from back up or old Xylok archives.
📄️ How do I check for old technical data?
If a concentrated test of a system is being performed--i.e., all data on a specific system should be collected over a week timeframe, Xylok can quickly check for systems missing data.