The ZAP command line allows you to set individual values as follows:

-config api.key=12345 -config connection.timeoutInSecs=60

How can you find out what keys to use to set the values you want?

The keys are a dot notation of the XML used in the config.xml file.

One way to find out which value you need to change is:

1. Start ZAP with a clean directory, eg * ./zap.sh -dir test1
2. Close ZAP
3. Start ZAP with another clean directory, eg * ./zap.sh -dir test2
4. Set the option you want to know the key of
5. Close ZAP
6. Diff the 2 config files: * diff test1/config.xml test2/config.xml
7. Work out the XML hierarchy of the item that has changed
8. Convert that to dot notation

For example, the default scanner strength level is in:

<scanner><strength>MEDIUM</strength></scanner>

Which in dot notation is:

scanner.strength=MEDIUM

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