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  1. Xygeni Scanner CLI
  2. Xygeni CLI Overview

Xygeni CLI Configuration options

Each scan has configuration options that are by default available in files named xygeni.yml and xygeni.<command>.yml in the scanner's conf directory. Each file is a YAML document that could be edited and uploaded to the Xygeni platform for reuse.

See following sections for specific scanner configurations:

  • Dependency Scanner configuration

  • CI/CD Misconfigurations Scanner Configuration

  • Secrets Scanner configuration

  • IaC Scanner Configuration

  • Code Tampering Scanner Configuration

  • Malware Scanner Configuration

Nevertheless, you can also configure the scanners by command line without the need to modify the configuration files.

The -cop|--conf-option are global options that go before the command, each for given a value to a configuration property

$ xygeni -cop | --conf-option key:value -cop | --conf-option key2:value ... <command> ...

Quotes surrounding key:value are optional, depending on shell metacharacters that can appear in key:value

keyis the name of the configuration property, and value is the value to be assigned. For nested properties separate the parts with '/'.

Examples:

# Disable commit resolution
xygeni -cop 'commitResolution:never' scan ...
# Set parallel mode with two threads
xygeni -cop 'mode:parallel' -cop 'parallelism:2' secrets ...
# Disable timeout
xygeni -cop 'timeout:0' secrets ...

# More complex cases (using long or short option names):
xygeni --config-option "report[format=text]/sort: exposure" \
  --config-option "report[format=text]/borders: none" \
  --config-option "parallelism: min(availableProcessors - 1, 4)" \
  scan ...

# Imagine that the user has this environment var instead of the expected JENKINS_URL
xygeni -cop "cicd[kind=jenkins]/url: ${MY_JENKINS_URL}" misconf ...

Note that many configuration options are passed through environment variables or local files in CI/CD pipelines, and for sporadic changes it may be easier to specify a few options with --conf-option, possibly storing command line options in an @argument file which could be under version control, etc.) This could be convenient when many configuration properties need to be overridden for scanning a particular project.

Follow our Central Configuration for instructions on how to handle central configuration.

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