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title: 'Scanning Schedule'
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markdown: 'https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings/antimalware/scanning-schedule.md'
date: '2026-09-22'
description: 'Scan Interval - scan_interval How often to scan all your domains for malware. This schedule will only take precidence when the real-time anti-malware monitoring is running. If the real-time monitoring is disabled then scanning will fall back to the daily scan used by the maldet cron entry. Schedull…'
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[](#)  [ Basics ](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/)     [ Settings Reference ](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings)     [ Antimalware ](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings/antimalware)      Scanning Schedule    

# Scanning Schedule

**Scan Interval** - `scan_interval`
How often to scan all your domains for malware. This schedule will only take precidence when the real-time anti-malware monitoring is running. If the real-time monitoring is disabled then scanning will fall back to the daily scan used by the maldet cron entry. Schedulled scans will always run with auto quarantine disabled to prevent false positives from damaging a website.
Default: Weekly

**Scan hour** - `scan_hour`
The hour of day to scan all your domains for malware.
Default: 1:00

**scan day** - `scan_day`
The day to scan all your domains for malware (only used for weekly scans).
Default: Sun

**Skip if scan running** - `skip_running_scan`
Do not run a scan if a scan is already running. This will prevent the schedular from starting multiple scans which may have not completed yet.
Default: true

**Files created / modified last** - `days`
Scan files created/modified in the last number of days. Default: 7

## Related Pages

- [Scan](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/plesk-interface/scan "Scan")
- [Statistical Analysis](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings/antimalware/statistical-analysis "Statistical Analysis")
- [Scanning Settings](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings/antimalware/scanning-settings "Scanning Settings")

 [ ](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings/antimalware/scanning-settings) [](https://docs.danami.com/sentinel/settings/antimalware/statistical-analysis)

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