Notifications

Tenable Nessus may periodically show notifications such as login attempts, errors, system information, and license expiration information. These notifications appear after you log in, and you can choose to acknowledge or dismiss each notification.

The following table describes the two ways you can view notifications:

Notification View Location Description
Current notifications

The bell icon in the top navigation bar ()

Shows notifications that appeared during this session.

When you acknowledge a notification, it no longer appears in your current notification session, but remains listed in the notification history.
Notification history

Settings > Notifications

Shows all notifications from the past 90 days.

The notifications table shows each notification and the time and date it appeared, whether you acknowledged it, the severity, and the message. Unacknowledged notifications appear in bold. You cannot acknowledge a notification from the notification history view.

Use the following procedures to manage notifications:

You can view outstanding notifications from your current session, and you can also view a history of notifications from the past 90 days.

To view your current notifications:

In the top navigation bar, click .

To view your notification history:

  1. In the top navigation bar, click Settings.

    The About page appears.

  2. In the left navigation bar, click Notifications.

    The Notifications page appears and shows the notifications table.

  3. (Optional) Filter or search the notifications to narrow results in the notifications table.

When you acknowledge a notification, it no longer appears in your current notification session, but remains listed in the notification history. You cannot acknowledge notifications from the notification history view.

If you choose not to acknowledge a notification, it appears the next time you log in. You cannot acknowledge some notifications – instead, you must take the recommended action.

To acknowledge a notification:

  • For a notification window, click Acknowledge.
  • For a notification banner, click Dismiss.
  • For a notification in the upper-right corner, click .

To clear current notifications:

  1. In the top navigation bar, click .

  2. Click Clear Notifications.

    Note: Clearing notifications does not acknowledge notifications. It removes them from your current notifications.