Uninstall a Tenable Nessus Agent on macOS
You can uninstall an agent on macOS by deleting the related agent directories and disabling the agent service.
Before you begin:
- Unlink the agent from the manager.
To uninstall Tenable Nessus Agent on macOS:
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Remove the Tenable Nessus Agent directories. From a command prompt, type the following commands:
- $ sudo rm -rf /Library/NessusAgent
- $ sudo rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.tenablesecurity.nessusagent.plist
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$ sudo rm -r "/Library/PreferencePanes/Nessus Agent Preferences.prefPane"
Note: To completely remove Tenable Nessus Agent from the system, you must manually delete the agent filesystem after running the remove command.
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Disable the Tenable Nessus Agent service:
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From a command prompt, type the following command:
$ sudo launchctl remove com.tenablesecurity.nessusagent
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If prompted, provide the administrator password.
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What to do next:
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If you plan on reinstalling the Tenable Nessus Agent on the system, see the knowledge base article on how to avoid linking errors.