Activate the Nessus BYOL Scanner

Before you begin:

• View the login and instance-type information in the Nessus BYOL Scanner documentation.

To activate the Tenable Nessus BYOL Scanner (Tenable Nessus Expert or Tenable Nessus Professional):

1. Navigate to the Tenable Nessus user interface on Port 8834, for example, https://<NessusBYOL-IP>:8834, where <BYOLpublicIP> is the IP address of your Tenable Nessus Expert or Tenable Nessus Professional instance.

   The Welcome to Tenable Nessus page appears.

2. Select Tenable Nessus Expert or Tenable Nessus Professional.
3. Click Continue.

   The Register Tenable Nessus page appears.

4. In the Activation Code box, type your Tenable Nessus Expert or Tenable Nessus Professional activation code.
5. Click Continue.

   Activation begins and plugins download. For more information, see the Nessus User Guide.