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What's the difference between proactive code check and instance scan?

Lisa71
Tera Contributor

What's the difference between proactive code check and instance scan? Especially from usage perspective. 

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Shubham_Jain
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@Lisa71 Please refer the below that has very good content out of it. 

 

Impact Proactive Code Check best practices - ServiceNow Community

 

 

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Shubham Jain


any specific example what kind of issues can be detected by one but can't by the other scan/check? thanks.

Ankur Bawiskar
Tera Patron
Tera Patron

@Lisa71 

proactive code check is available from Washington DC/Yokohama

more explanation here -> it specifically for code check, if code follows best practice or not

Introducing Proactive Code Check in the Yokohama Release 

Configuring Proactive Code Check 

Instance scan -> more general tool for determining issues in instance, coding checks, configuration checks, security vulnerabilities check, used in pre-post upgrades.

Instance Scan 

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Ankur
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Thank you for all the sharing. However any specific example what kind of issues can be detected by one but can't by the other scan/check? thanks.