SecurityInsight settings · Settings > Guards

First collection: restarts of a failed step

Key	SI_Pro_Pipeline_FirstRunRestarts
Where	Settings > Guards (safety checks) > Data-quality warnings
Type	int
Default	2 restarts
Edition	pro

What it does

On a new install's first collection, a step that fails or is stopped is started again at once and carries on from what it finished, this many times. After that the run ends with a warning that names the step and who must act.

When set

Higher tries more often before the first collection ends with a warning; 0 means a failed step is not started again. Only the steps that collect, correlate and load the web app are started again -- never a step that writes to a CMDB, to ServiceNow or to a ticket. It has no effect after the first complete collection.

When blank or default

Left blank, the default applies: 2 restarts

Risk and how to reverse it

0: a step that fails on a new install's first collection is not started again, so the first data arrives a run later. Higher: a step that cannot succeed is tried that many times more before the warning. Nothing is written to a CMDB, to ServiceNow or to a ticket by a restart, and nothing is closed. Reversible at once; it applies from the next run and only until the first complete collection.

Requires

A SecurityInsight Pro licence.