About Scan-Agent Plugins
Once a Code Insight scan-agent plugin is installed and the scan is configured as part of your build process, the scan agent, when run, collects and sends the scan results back to a project in Code Insight. The results provide information about the scanned files (including any license evidence found) and published inventory awaiting review, management, and remediation through Code Insight user interface. As with published inventory generated by the Code Insight scan server, published inventory generated by a scan-agent plugin can be automatically reviewed by license or security policies as part of the scan and, for inventory not reviewed by policy, can be reviewed manually by legal or security experts. Security alerts with corresponding email notifications will be generated for any inventory item with new security vulnerabilities.
No Backward Compatibility with Code Insight Releases Previous to 2022 R2
The scan-agent plugins released in the current version of Code Insight are not compatible with Code Insight versions previous to 2022 R2. That is, if you attempt to run a 2022 R2 or later scan-agent plugin with Code Insight 2022 R1 or earlier, the plugin scan will fail.
Supported Rescan Type
After the initial full scan of a file system, subsequent scans by a scan-agent plugin will be incremental only. No forced full rescans are supported.
Scan-agent plugin support for incremental rescans was introduced in Code Insight 2022 R2. Prior to 2022 R2, scan agent plugins supported only full rescans for both the initial scan and all rescans. These previous plugins are still compatible with Code Insight 2022 R2 and later, but they will continue to run full scans only (with no support for incremental scanning).