Activate a Nessus Professional or Expert Trial
This option activates a seven-day trial of Nessus Professional or Nessus Expert.
To activate your Nessus Professional or Nessus Expert trial:
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On the Welcome to Nessus screen, select the Nessus trial you want to activate:
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Start a trial of Nessus Expert
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Start a trial of Nessus Professional
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Click Continue.
The Get Started page appears.
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Enter the email address of your Tenable community account, or the email address you want to connect to your Tenable community account.
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If Nessus recognizes the email address, a page appears saying that Nessus found your account.
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If Nessus does not recognize the email address, the Create Account page appears.
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Enter your new account information.
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Click Start Trial.
The Trial License Information page appears, and shows your activation code and the ending date of your trial. Tenable recommends recording your activation code somewhere safe.
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Click Continue.
The Create a user account screen appears.
- Create a Nessus administrator user account that you use to log in to Nessus:
- In the Username box, enter a username.
In the Password box, enter a password for the user account.
Note: Passwords cannot contain Unicode characters.
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Click Submit.
Nessus finishes the configuration process and signs you into the user interface.
Note: When you sign in to Nessus for the first time, you receive the following message: Plugins are compiling. Nessus functionality will be limited until compilation is complete. You cannot create scans, view policies or plugin rules, or use the upgrade assistant while Nessus compiles plugins.