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, the system removes them from the user interface, deletes all associated findings, and stops matching scan results. Within 24 hours, the assets are decremented from your license count.

Note: You cannot delete more than 5,000 assets at once.

To delete assets from Tenable Vulnerability Management:

  1. In the left navigation, click Explore (Preview) > Assets.

    The Assets page appears.

  2. Select the assets to delete.

    Above the selected assets, the action bar apears

  3. In the action bar, click More > Delete.

    A dialog appears.

  4. In the dialog, select the checkbox and click Delete again.

    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.