Upload Scan Results

Required User Role: Organizational user with appropriate permissions. For more information, see User Roles.

You can upload active or agent scan results from scans performed by other systems. Tenable Security Center supports either raw (.nessus) or compressed (.zip) files, with one .nessus file per archive before uploading. This allows you to import scan results from scans run in remote locations without network connectivity to Tenable Security Center.

Note: To upload files greater than 300 MB to Tenable Security Center, you must modify upload_max_filesize in /opt/sc/support/etc/php.ini to accommodate the larger uploads.

Scan Result-Repository Incompatibility

Caution: Tenable does not recommend importing scan results to incompatible repositories since data may be omitted.

If you upload agent scan results to a non-agent repository, Tenable Security Center omits all vulnerabilities without IP Address data for the host. Non-agent repositories cannot uniquely identify hosts without IP Address data for the host.

If you upload non-agent scan results to an agent repository, Tenable Security Center omits all vulnerabilities without Agent ID data for the host. Agent repositories cannot uniquely identify hosts without Agent ID data for the host.

To upload scan results:

Log in to Tenable Security Center via the user interface.
Click Scans > Scan Results.

The Scan Results page appears.
At the top of the table, click Upload Scan Results.
In the Scan File option, click Choose File.

The file uploads to Tenable Security Center.
In the Import Repository drop-down box, select a repository.
If you selected an IPv4, IPv6, or Universal repository, enable or disable the Advanced options: Track hosts which have been issued new IP address, Scan Virtual Hosts, and Immediately remove vulnerabilities from scanned hosts that do not reply.

For more information about the advanced options, see Active Scan Settings.
Click Submit.

Tenable Security Center saves your configuration.