Install Tenable Nessus on Linux

Caution: If you install a Tenable Nessus Agent, Tenable Nessus Manager, or Tenable Nessus scanner on a system with an existing Tenable Nessus Agent, Tenable Nessus Manager, or Tenable Nessus scanner running nessusd, the installation process terminates all other nessusd processes. You may lose scan data as a result.

Note: Tenable Nessus does not support using symbolic links for /opt/nessus/.

Before you begin:

To install Nessus on Linux:

  1. Download the Tenable Nessus package file.

  2. From the command line, run the Tenable Nessus installation command specific to your operating system.

    Example Tenable Nessus install commands:

  3. From the command line, restart the nessusd daemon.

    Example Tenable Nessus daemon start commands:

  4. Open Tenable Nessus in your browser.

    • To access a remotely installed Tenable Nessus instance, go to https://<remote IP address>:8834 (for example, https://111.49.7.180:8834).

    • To access a locally installed Tenable Nessus instance, go to https://localhost:8834.

  5. Perform the remaining Tenable Nessus installation steps in your browser.