Agent Status

Tenable Nessus Agents can be in one of the following statuses:

Status Description
Online

The host that contains the Tenable Nessus Agent is currently connected and in communication with Tenable Vulnerability Management.

Offline The host that contains the Tenable Nessus Agent is currently powered down or not connected to a network.
Initializing

The Tenable Nessus Agent is in the process of checking in with Tenable Vulnerability Management.