Currently controller does not broadcast container config updates to running instances. To see this happening you would have to restart kie server so it does collect the container info once again. For now the only way would be to use UI as that is sending request directly to servers connected or use KIE Server REST api.

For example, if you change the Scanner status using Controller's REST API to SCANNING, like this:

METHOD:POST
ENDPOINT:
http://localhost:8080/business-central/rest/controller/management/servers/644-remote-kie-server/containers/scannerTest/config/RULE
BODY:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <rule-config> <scannerStatus>SCANNING</scannerStatus> </rule-config>

The actual scan will not be performed on deployed container until you restart the kieserver.