Create a Scan Report

Required user role when using Tenable Nessus Manager: Standard, Administrator, or System Administrator

You can create a scan report to help you analyze the vulnerabilities and remediations on affected hosts. You can create a scan report in PDF, HTML, or CSV format, and customize it to contain only certain information.

When you create a scan report, it includes the results that are currently visible on your scan results page. You can also select certain hosts or vulnerabilities to specify your report.

To create a scan report:

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Scans.

    The My Scans page appears.

  2. Click a scan.

    The scan's results page appears.

  3. (Optional) To create a scan report that includes specific scan results, do the following:

    • Use search to narrow your scan results.

    • Use filters to narrow your scan results.

    • In the Hosts tab, select the checkbox in each row of a host you want to include in the scan report.

    • In the Vulnerabilities tab, select the checkbox in each row of each vulnerability or vulnerability group that you want to include in the scan report.

    Note: You can make selections in either Hosts or Vulnerabilities, but not across both tabs.

  4. In the upper-right corner, click Report.

    The Generate Report window appears.

  5. Select the format in which you want to export the scan results.

  6. Configure the report for your selected format:

    1. Click the Report Template you want to use.

      A description of the report template and a list of the template's applied filters appear.

      Tip: Select Hide system templates to view a list of your custom report templates only.

    2. (Optional) If available for the report template you selected, you can enable or disable the Include page breaks between vulnerability results option.

    3. (Optional) To save the selected report template as the default for PDF or HTML reports (depending on which format you selected), select the Save as default checkbox.

    4. Click Generate Report.

      Tenable Nessus creates the scan report.

    1. Select the checkboxes for the columns you want to appear in the CSV report.

      Tip: To select all columns, click Select All. To clear all columns, click Clear. To reset columns to the system default, click System.

    2. (Optional) To save your current configuration as the default for CSV reports, select the Save as default checkbox.

    3. Click Generate Report.

      Tenable Nessus creates the scan report.