Create a Manual or Automatic Tag

Required Tenable Vulnerability Management User Role: Scan Manager or Administrator

If your tags fail to apply, the tag rules may return too many assets for Tenable Vulnerability Management to process. For example, a long list of Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDNs) with wildcards would cover a large number of assets. When this happens, Tenable recommends reducing the number of assets through stricter tag rules. If needed, you can then use an additional tag to join each list.

On the Create Tag page, you can create a manual tag to apply to assets individually. You can also create an automatic tag by creating tag rules that Tenable Vulnerability Management uses to identify and tag matching assets.

Note: You can create up to 100 tag categories, and each category can have up to 100,000 tags.

To create an automatic tag from the Tags page:

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

    The left navigation plane appears.

  2. In the left navigation plane, click Settings.

    The Settings page appears.

  3. Click the Tagging tile.

    The Tags page appears. On this page, you can view your asset tag categories and values.

    The Categories tab is active.

  4. In the upper-right corner of the page, click the Create Tag button.

    The Create Tag page appears.

  5. Click the Category drop-down box.

  6. In the Add New Category box, type a category.

    As you type, the list filters for matches.

  7. From the drop-down box, select an existing category, or if the category is new, click Create "category name".

    Note: You can create a maximum of 100 categories for your Tenable Vulnerability Management instance.

  8. (Optional) In the Category Description box, type a description of the tag category.

  9. In the Value box, type a name for the tag.

    Note: Tag names cannot include commas or be more than 50 characters in length.

    Tip: Tenable recommends that you provide a tag name that directly corresponds with the tag category. For example, if the category is Location, Headquarters would be an appropriate value.

  10. (Optional) In the Value Description box, type a description for the new tag.

  11. Do one of the following:

    1. Click Save.

      Tenable Vulnerability Management saves the tag to the tags table.

    2. (Optional) Manually add the tag to one or more assets.

    1. Create a tag rule.

    2. Click Save.

      Tenable Vulnerability Management creates the tag, evaluates existing assets, and automatically applies the tag to assets that match the tag rules.

      Note: When you create an automatic tag, Tenable Vulnerability Management may take a few minutes to apply the tag and update any Excluded Assets, depending on the system load and the number of assets.