Scan Exports and Reports
You can export scans as a Tenable Nessus file or a Tenable Nessus DB file
You can also create a scan report in several different formats. For more information, see Create a Scan Report.
User report templates to define the content of a report, based on chapter selection and ordering. Once you define your custom templates custom (for more information, see Create a Custom Report Template), you can use them to generate HTML or PDF reports for scan results. In addition to custom templates, Nessus provides some predefined system templates. To view custom and system report templates, see Customized Reports. For more information on the system templates, see https://www.tenable.com/nessus-reports.
| Format | Description |
|---|---|
| Exports | |
| Nessus | A .nessus file in XML format that contains the list of targets, policies defined by the user, and scan results. Nessus strips the password credentials so they are not exported as plain text in the XML. If you import a .nessus file as a policy, you must re-apply your passwords to any credentials. |
| Nessus DB | A proprietary encrypted database format that contains all the information in a scan, including the audit trails and results. When you export in this format, you must enter a password to encrypt the results of the scan. |
| Policy | An informational JSON file that contains the scan policy details. |
| Timing Data | An informational comma-separated values (CSV) file that contains the scan hostname, IP, FQDN, scan start and end times, and the scan duration in seconds. |
| Reports | |
| A report generated in PDF format. Depending on the size of the report, PDF generation may take several minutes. You need either Oracle Java or OpenJDK for PDF reports. | |
| HTML | A report generated using standard HTML output. This report opens in a new tab in your browser. |
| CSV | A CSV export that you can use to import into many external programs such as databases, spreadsheets, and more. |