System and License Requirements

To install and run Tenable Core + Tenable Sensor Proxy, your application and system must meet the following requirements established for Tenable Sensor Proxy.

Note: Tenable Support does not assist with issues related to your host operating system, even if you encounter them during installation or deployment.

Environment		Tenable Core File Format	More Information
Virtual Machine	VMware	.ova file	Deploy Tenable Core in VMware
	Microsoft Hyper-V	.zip file	Deploy Tenable Core in Hyper-V
Cloud	Microsoft Azure	n/a	Deploy Tenable Core in Microsoft Azure
Cloud	Amazon Web Services (AWS)	n/a	Deploy Tenable Core in AWS
Hardware		.iso image	Install Tenable Core on Hardware

Note: While you could use the packages to run Tenable Core in other environments, Tenable does not provide documentation for those procedures.

Software Requirements

• Set up Tenable Sensor Proxy on your network where sensors can reach it internally and where Tenable Sensor Proxy can reach Tenable Vulnerability Management (or Tenable Security Center) directly with outbound traffic.

Note: Tenable Sensor Proxy does not support content delivery network (CDN)-based scan reports from Tenable Nessus Agents.

Hardware Requirements

Scenario	Minimum Recommended Hardware
Tenable Sensor Proxy with up to 50,000 sensors	CPU: 4 2GHz cores Memory: 8 GB RAM Disk space: 100 GB
Tenable Sensor Proxy with more than 50,000 sensors Note: Each instance of Tenable Sensor Proxy can support up to 100,000 linked sensors.	CPU: 4 2GHz cores Memory: 16 GB RAM Disk space: 100 GB

Note: Heavy usage of Tenable Sensor Proxy can cause the NGINX access log to grow substantially. Tenable recommends setting up log rotation to prevent running out of disk space.

Tenable Products

• You must have a Tenable Vulnerability Management or Tenable Security Center account.
• You must have Tenable Nessus Agents or Tenable Nessus scanners.