Enable or Disable a Node

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

If you disable a child node, its linked Tenable Agents relink to another available child node in the same cluster group. If you re-enable a child node, Tenable Agents may become unevenly distributed, at which point you can choose to Rebalance Nodes.

To enable or disable child nodes:

1. In the top navigation bar, click Sensors.

   The Linked Agents page appears. By default, Linked Agents is selected in the left navigation menu and the Linked Agents tab is active.

2. In the left navigation bar, click Agent Clustering.

   The Cluster Groups page appears.

3. In the cluster groups table, click the row of a cluster group that contains child nodes.

4. In the row of a child node, do one of the following:

   • To disable a node:
     1. Hover over the  button, which becomes .

     2. Click the button.

        Tenable Nessus Manager disables the child node.

   • To enable a node:
     1. Hover over the .  button, which becomes .

     2. Click the  button.

        Tenable Nessus Manager enables the child node.