View Your Nessus Scanners

Required Tenable Security Center User Role: Administrator

For more information, see Tenable Nessus Scanners.

To view a list of configured Tenable Nessus scanners:

  1. Log in to Tenable Security Center via the user interface.

  2. Click Resources > Tenable Nessus Scanners.

    The Tenable Nessus Scanners page appears.

  3. View details about each Tenable Nessus scanner.

    • Name — The name for the scanner.

    • Features — Specifies whether the scanner is a Standard scanner or an Agent Capable scanner. Agent capable scanners provide Tenable Agent scan results to Tenable Security Center.

    • Status — The status of the scanner. For more information, see Tenable Nessus Scanner Statuses.

    • Host — The IP address or hostname of the scanner.

    • Version — The scanner's Tenable Nessus version.

    • Type — The type of scanner connection.

      Type

      Description

      Unknown

      Tenable Security Center could not identify the scanner.

      Nessus (Unmanaged Plugins)

      Tenable Security Center accesses the scanner using a Tenable Nessus user account with Standard permissions.

      Tenable Security Center cannot send plugin updates to the scanner or manage the scanner's activation code.

      Nessus (Managed Plugins)

      Tenable Security Center manages the scanner and authenticates via a Tenable Nessus user account.

      Tenable Security Center sends plugin updates to the scanner and manages the scanner's activation code.

      Tenable.io (Unmanaged Plugins)

      Tenable Security Center accesses the instance using a Tenable Vulnerability Management user account with Standard permissions.

      Tenable Security Center cannot send plugin updates to the instance or manage the instance's activation code.

    • Uptime — The value indicates the number of days or the amount of time the scanner has been active. This duration corresponds to the Nessus service (nessusd) process running time.

    • Last Modified — The date and time the scanner was last modified.

  4. To view details of a specific Tenable Nessus scanner, see View Details for a Nessus Scanner.

  5. To filter the scanners that appear on the page, apply a filter as described in Apply a Filter.

  6. To manually refresh the Status data, at the top of the table, click Update Status.

    Tenable Security Center refreshes the Status data.