Scan Frequency

  • Resolved farnely

    (@farnely)


    6 years, 4 months ago

    I’m really pleased to see the addition of this plugin to the repository; being able to perform this function without a full blown heavily laden security plugin is something that’s been missing for a long time!

    Could you clarify something for me please? I’ve set the scan to daily but I notice a there’s a scheduled event for the ‘wfcm_monitor_file_changes’ hook that runs every 10 minutes. As I understand it, the plugin checks and logs any changes every 10 minutes and then the ‘scan’ runs daily reading the log, collating the information and sending the email. Is that right? If so, I’d like to change the frequency of the scheduled event for the ‘wfcm_monitor_file_changes’ hook to daily as well (it seems odd to be running every 10 minutes when a report is only sent daily). Would doing this cause any issues or is there a particular reason for running the hook so frequently?

    Many thanks

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  • Plugin Author robertabela

    (@robert681)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you for using our plugin and for the positive feedback @farnely

    Actually, the cron does not launch a file scan, but checks if it is time to run a scan. There are several reasons why we have configured the cron to run every 10 minutes, even though the plugin is configured to run a daily scan.

    For example we wanted to cater for scenarios where the scan does not run on time because of some other tasks, so when the cron runs again 10 minutes later, then the scan is triggered.

    However, upon looking into the logic of this setup, things can be done in a much better way. So we will improve this in the upcoming version update of the plugin.

    Thank you for pointing this out. Please do not hesitate to ask should you have any other questions.

    Thread Starter farnely

    (@farnely)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for coming back to me.

    I read about the plugin here https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/wordpress-plugins/website-file-changes-monitor/ so because it says “get alerted whenever files are added, modified or deleted” it was a bit of a surprise to then find that actually the alert is at the most a daily one.

    I would really like to have the ability to run scans multiple times a day, maybe even hourly (for obvious reasons!). Is this something you foresee happening?

    Plugin Author robertabela

    (@robert681)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    You’re welcome @farnely

    We do indeed have plans to add more options so you can have more frequent scans. Ideally this can be a realtime solution, however, with WordPress it is not that easy.

    Though we will definitely improve this section of the plugin. Thank you very much for the feedback.

    Thread Starter farnely

    (@farnely)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Well realtime would be awesome but I’d be very happy with hourly scans. Do you have a timeframe for implementing better scanning options?

    Plugin Author robertabela

    (@robert681)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    It will be added in the next update @farnely

    I cannot give you an exact date with the next update will be available, but certainly within the next few months.

    Subscribe to our newsletter so you get notified when we release the update.

    Hope that helps!

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