Maintenance Mode Required to Scan?

[elihuj]

Our best practice has always been to put hosts into maintenance mode first, and then scan for updates with Update Manager. We are looking at implementing scheduled scans, and the only thing stopping us is our practice of maintenance mode beforehand. Is this needed? Or are we safely able to scan production hosts with active VM's?

[vmroyale · Accepted solution]

Yes, you can scan the hosts while they have running VMs. Maintenance mode is not required for this.

[elihuj]

Nice, thank you vmroyale!