Restart an Agent

Required Tenable Vulnerability Management User Role: Scan Manager or Administrator

In Tenable Vulnerability Management, you can restart linked agents (versions 7.6 and later) on the Linked Agents tab.

To restart an agent:

1. In the upper-left corner, click the button.

   The left navigation plane appears.

2. In the left navigation plane, click Settings.

   The Settings page appears.

3. Click the Sensors tile.

   The Sensors page appears. By default, the Nessus Scanners tab is active and Linked Scanners is selected in the drop-down box.

4. Click the Nessus Agents tab.

   The list of agents appears and Linked Agents is selected in the drop-down box.

5. (Optional) Search for a specific agent or filter the agents in the table.

6. Do one of the following:

   To restart a single agent:

   1. In the agents table, in the row for the agent you want to restart, click the button.

      The Restart Agent window appears.

   2. Select one of the following Restart Types:

      Restart Type	Description
      Soft	Restart the agent backend without restarting the service.
      Hard	Restart the agent backend and service.
      Idle	Restart the agent backend and service when the agent is not running a scan.

   3. Click Save.

      Tenable Vulnerability Management saves your settings, and the changes take effect the next time the agent checks in. For online agents, this can take up to 45 minutes.

   To restart multiple agents:

   1. Do one of the following:

      • In the agents table, select the check box next to each agent you want to restart.

      • In the table header, select the check box to select the entire page.

      The action bar appears at the bottom of the page.

      Tip: In the action bar, select Select All Pages to select all linked agents.

   2. In the action bar, click the button.

      The Restart Agents window appears.

   3. Select one of the following Restart Types:

      Restart Type	Description
      Soft	Restart the agent backend without restarting the service.
      Hard	Restart the agent backend and service.
      Idle	Restart the agent backend and service when the agent is not running a scan.

   4. Click Save.

      Tenable Vulnerability Management saves your settings, and the changes take effect the next time the agent checks in. For online agents, this can take up to 45 minutes.