Pause, Resume, or Stop Scans on a Managed Tenable Security Center Instance

Required Tenable Security Center Director User Role: Administrator

From Tenable Security Center Director, you can pause, resume, and stop scans that are running on managed Tenable Security Center instances.

  • If you pause a scan, the scan temporarily stops scanning targets. You can resume a paused scan at any time.

  • If you stop a scan, you can choose to create a rollover scan.

For more information about connecting managed Tenable Security Center instances to Tenable Security Center Director, see Tenable Security Center Director Deployments.

To pause, resume, or stop scans on a managed Tenable Security Center instance:

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

  2. Click Scan Results.

    The Scan Results page appears.

  3. To pause a running scan:

    • In the row for the scan you want to pause, click the button.

      Tenable Security Center pauses the scan on the managed Tenable Security Center instance.

  4. To resume a paused scan:

    • In the row for the scan you want to resume, click the play button.

      Tenable Security Center resumes the paused scan on the managed Tenable Security Center instance.

  5. To stop a running scan:

    1. In the row for the scan you want to stop, click the actions menu.

      The actions menu appears.

    2. Click Stop.

    3. Click one of the following options to determine how the managed Tenable Security Center instance handles the results of the stopped scan:

      • Discard Results — The managed Tenable Security Center instance does not import any of the results obtained by the scan to the database.

      • Import Results — The managed Tenable Security Center instance imports the results of the current scan and discards the information for the unscanned hosts.

      • Import Results and Create Rollover — The managed Tenable Security Center instance imports the results from the scan into the database and creates a rollover scan that you can launch manually to complete the scan.

      Tenable Security Center stops the scan on the managed Tenable Security Center instance.