View Your Nessus Scanners

Required User Role: Administrator

You can view the Tenable Nessus scanners on your managed Tenable Security Center instances. For more information, see Tenable Nessus Scanners.

To view a list of configured Tenable Nessus scanners on your managed Tenable Security Center instances:

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

  2. Click Scan Infrastructure > Tenable Nessus Scanners.

    The Tenable Nessus Scanners page appears.

  3. View details about each Tenable Nessus scanner.

    • Name — The name for the scanner.

    • Tenable Security Center Instance — The name of the Tenable Security Center instance where the scanner is configured. For more information, see Tenable Security Center Director Deployments.

    • Features — Specifies whether the scanner is a Standard scanner or an Agent Capable scanner. Agent capable scanners provide Tenable Nessus 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.

    • Uptime — The length of time, in days, that the scanner has been running.

    • 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 Director refreshes the Status data.