About Assessment Intervals

Noncompliant endpoints, by default, are assessed more frequently to help increase compliance across the network. The following table shows the different reassessment schedules and the factors that may trigger them.

Assessment Type

Deployment Method

Compliant

Noncompliant

Default interval

1 day

15 minutes

Agent-based assessments

Persistent agent

1/2 of configured interval

1/2 of configured interval

Single-use agent

As configured, triggered by traffic

As configured, triggered by traffic

No agent

N/A

N/A

Device-based assessments

All types

Real-time, triggered by traffic

Real-time, triggered by traffic