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title: Managing discovery intervals
description: You can enable or disable discovery and update the discovery interval by using the update.sh script available in the util directory. If the training period is set to 1 hour, then discovered application programming interface (API)s are reported 1 hour from the time when API Security Enforcer (ASE) sends access logs. You can update these default values using the update.sh script.
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revdate: April 3, 2024
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  steps: Steps
  result: Result:
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# Managing discovery intervals

You can enable or disable discovery and update the discovery interval by using the `update.sh` script available in the `util` directory. If the training period is set to 1 hour, then discovered application programming interface (API) *(tooltip: \<div class="paragraph">
\<p>A specification of interactions available for building software to access an application or service.\</p>
\</div>)*s are reported 1 hour from the time when API Security Enforcer (ASE) sends access logs. You can update these default values using the `update.sh` script.

## About this task

To run the `update.sh` script:

## Steps

1. Copy the `update.sh` script from the `/opt/pingidentity/abs/util` directory to your MongoDB primary machine.

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   |   | You can change the training period and threshold simultaneously or individually. |

2. Access the script help by logging in to the MongoDB primary machine and running the following command:

   ```
   /opt/pingidentity/mongo/update.sh help
   ```

   ### Result:

   ```
   /opt/pingidentity/mongo/update.sh --api_discovery true --discovery_update_interval 48
   updating api_discovery to true
   WriteResult({ "nMatched" : 1, "nUpserted" : 0, "nModified" : 0 })
   updating discovery_update_interval to 48
   The current values of the variables are:
   attack_initial_training=1
   attack_update_interval=24
   api_discovery=false
   discovery_update_interval=1
   continuous_learning=true
   discovery_initial_period=1
   url_limit=100
   response_size=100
   window_length=24
   discovery_subpath=3
   percentage_diskusage_limit=80

   Global Config successfully updated
   ```