Agent Profiles

You can use agent profiles to apply a specific version to your linked agents. This can be helpful for testing; for example, you may want to schedule a testing period on a subset of your agents before upgrading all your agents to a new version. An agent profile allows you to apply a newer version to a subset of your agents for a limited time, and more broadly, allows you to upgrade and downgrade agents to different versions easily. You can only assign an agent to one profile.

Note: You cannot set agent profiles to versions earlier than 10.4.1. Agent profiles do not affect agents on versions earlier than 10.4.1.

Note: The agent profile version overrides the agent's Nessus Agent update plan setting. If you assign the agent a freeze window, the freeze window overrides both the Nessus Agent update plan and the agent profile. In this case, the agent remains on its current version and no software updates occur for that agent as long as the agent is assigned to the freeze window.

To manage agent profiles:

  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 Profiles.

    The Agent Profiles page appears.

Use the following procedures to manage your agent profiles:

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