This function initializes the SNF scanning engine using the configuration file provided. The configuration file identifies all of the operational parameters for the SNF engine including the location of the working directories and rulebase file, SNF license information, and much more. Please see the documentation on SNFServer for details on configuring the SNF engine.

path = The full path to the snf_engine.xml file as a null terminated string.

returns snf_SUCCESS when successful, otherwise see Error Codes.