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title: Rescan records and remediation tasks in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace
description: To verify that your remediation tasks and records have been resolved between scheduled scanning cycles, initiate rescans from your ServiceNow AI Platform on-demand.
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canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/security-management/vulnerability-manager-workspace/vr-ws-rescan-vi-VMGR.html
release: australia
product: Vulnerability Manager Workspace
classification: vulnerability-manager-workspace
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 2
breadcrumb: [Monitoring and managing vulnerable items and test results in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace, Vulnerability Manager Workspace, Vulnerability Response Workspaces, Unified Security Exposure Management, Security Operations]
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# Rescan records and remediation tasks in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace

To verify that your remediation tasks and records have been resolved between scheduled scanning cycles, initiate rescans from your ServiceNow AI Platform on-demand.

Role required: sn\_vul.vulnerability\_analyst or sn\_vul.vulnerability\_admin.

Rescans permit you to verify that your remediation activities, patches, and other actions have successfully fixed specific vulnerabilities on your configuration items \(CIs\).

The Rapid7 and Qualys scanners are deactivated by default in the Vulnerability Response application. If you try to perform a rescan from the vulnerable items or remediation tasks that have these applications as a source, the **Rescan** button is not available.

To activate these scanners, as a user with the sn\_vul.vulnerability\_admin role:

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Vulnerability Response** > **Vulnerability Scanning** > **Scanners**.
2.  Locate the scanner product that you want to activate and click the record to open it.
3.  Select the Active check box.
4.  Click **Update**.

    The product you activated is displayed in the Source field on the vulnerable item and remediation task records after the next import, and **Rescan** is available as a UI action.


Rescan is supported for records and remediation tasks with the following integrations in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace. See the following topics for more information:

-   [Rescan Rapid7 vulnerable items from the Vulnerability Response workspaces](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/it-remediation-workspace/ws-rapid7-rescan.md)
-   [Rescan Qualys vulnerable items from the Vulnerability Response workspaces](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/it-remediation-workspace/ws-qualys-rescan.md)
-   [Rescan Tenable.io and Tenable.sc vulnerable items from the Vulnerability Response workspaces](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/it-remediation-workspace/ws-tenable-rescan.md)

To initiate rescans in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace from vulnerable item and remediation task records, the records require a supported scanner as a source.

You might prefer to create a filtered list that displays records by their source. See [Create a customized list of records](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-manager-workspace/vmws-create-custom-list.md) for an example of how to create a list.

**Parent Topic:**[Monitoring and managing vulnerable items and test results in the Vulnerability Manager Workspace](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/security-management/vulnerability-manager-workspace/using-vulnerability-manager-workspace.md)