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Enabling or disabling retroactive detection from AV-Suite using the CLI

Published on Sep 8, 2026

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Follow these steps to enable or disable retroactive detection from AV-Suite using the CLI.

To enable retroactive detection from AV-Suite:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

Enable retroactive detection.

hostname (config) analysis retro-hunt enable

Save your changes.
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```
Verify the status for retroactive detection.
```
hostname (config) # show analysis config 
..... 
Retroactive hunting : Enabled 
.....
```
The "Retroactive hunting" line displays "Enabled" to indicate that the File Protect appliance can access the previous results of the analysis that were stored in AV-Suite.

To disable retroactive detection from AV-Suite:

Go to CLI configuration mode:

hostname > enable
hostname # configure terminal

Disable retroactive detection.

hostname (config) # no analysis retro-hunt enable

Save your changes.
```
hostname (config) # write memory
```
Verify the status for retroactive detection.
```
hostname (config) show analysis config 
......
Retroactive hunting : Disabled 
.....
```
The "Retroactive hunting" line displays "Disabled" to indicate that theFile Protect appliance cannot access the previous results of the analysis that were stored in AV-Suite.

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