About

The About page shows an overview of Tenable Nessus licensing and plugin information. When you access the product settings, the About page appears. By default, Tenable Nessus shows the Overview tab, which contains information about your Tenable Nessus instance, as described in the Overview table.

On the Software Update tab, you can set your automatic software update preferences or manually update Tenable Nessus software.

On the Encryption Password tab, you can set an encryption password.

Basic users cannot view the Software Update or Encryption Password tabs. Standard users can only view the product version and basic information about the current plugin set.

To download logs, click the Download Logs button in the upper-right corner of the page. For more information, see Download Logs.

Overview

Value

Description

Nessus Professional and Nessus Expert

Version

The version of your Nessus instance.

Last Updated

The date on which the plugin set was last refreshed.

Expiration

The date on which your license age outs.

Note: For Tenable Nessus Professional 8.5 and later, you cannot run scans or download new plugins after your license age outs. You can still access your system and scan reports for 30 days after expiration.

Plugin Set

The ID of the current plugin set.

Policy Template Version The ID of the current version of the policy template set.

Activation Code

The activation code for your instance of Nessus.

Nessus Manager

Version

The version of your Nessus instance.

Licensed Hosts

The number of hosts you can scan, depending on your license.

Licensed Scanners

The number of scanners that you have licensed that are currently in use.

Licensed Agents

The number of agents that you have licensed that are currently in use.

Last Updated

The date on which the plugin set was last refreshed.

Expiration

The date on which your license age outs.

Plugin Set

The ID of the current plugin set.

Policy Template Version The ID of the current version of the policy template set.

Activation Code

The activation code for your instance of Nessus.