Delete Assets

Required Tenable Vulnerability Management User Role: Scan Operator, Standard, Scan Manager, or Administrator

Caution: Deleting assets quickly removes decommissioned hosts or other irrelevant assets from your license count and reports, but it is permanent! Be careful with this feature. Consider enabling Asset Age Out instead, as described in View or Edit a Network.

On the Assets page, you can delete Host, Web Application, or Domain Inventory assets. When you delete assets, Tenable Vulnerability Management removes them from the assets view, deletes all associated findings, and stops matching scan results. Within 24 hours, the assets are removed from your license count. For information on deleting duplicate assets, see Remove and Prevent Duplicate Assets.

Note: You cannot delete more than 200 assets at once.

To delete assets from Tenable Vulnerability Management:

  1. In the left navigation, click Explore > Assets.

    The Assets page appears.

  2. On the Assets page, do one of the following:

    • Delete a single asset with the button

      1. In the row for the asset to delete, click the More button.

        A menu appears.

      2. In the menu, click Delete.

      3. The Delete Assets window appears.

    • Delete a single asset with the Asset Details pane

      1. Click on the row for the asset to delete.

        The Asset Details pane appears.

      2. In the upper right corner, click the More button.

        A menu appears.

      3. In the menu, click Delete.

      4. The Delete Assets window appears.

    • Delete multiple assets from the action bar

      1. Select the checkbox for each asset to delete.

        Above the selected assets, the action bar appears.

        Tip: To select all assets, click the checkbox on the action bar. Then click select all assets. You can only delete 200 assets at a time.

        Tip: To select 50 assets at a time, click the checkbox on the action bar.

      2. In the action bar, click More.

        A menu appears.

      3. Click Delete.

      4. The Delete Assets window appears.

  3. In the Delete Assets window, select the checkbox to confirm your intent to delete the listed assets.

  4. Click the Delete button.

    The system queues the assets for deletion. Any deleted assets seen with the Asset ID filter are temporary and do not count against your license.