Delete a Scan

Required Tenable Vulnerability Management User Role: Scan Manager or Administrator

Required Tenable Web App Scanning User Role:  Scan Operator, Standard, Scan Manager, or Administrator

Required Scan Permissions: Can Configure

When you permanently delete a scan, you delete the scan configuration and scan results for all users the scan is shared with. Only scan owners can permanently delete a scan in Tenable Vulnerability Management.

The workflow for deleting a remediation scan differs from the workflow described in this procedure. For more information, see the Delete a remediation scan steps at the end of this topic.

Note:Tenable Vulnerability Management deletes scan results older than 90 days.

Caution: After you delete a scan, you cannot recover the scan or any scan data associated with the scan. Delete only scans you are certain you no longer need to view or run.

Before you begin:

• If the scan you want to delete is a Tenable Vulnerability Management scan, move the scan to the Trash folder.

To delete a scan:

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

   The left navigation plane appears.

2. Do one of the following:

   • In the left navigation plane, in the Vulnerability Management section, click Scans.

     The Scans page appears.

   • In the left navigation plane, in the Web App Scanning section, click Scans.

     The Web Application Scanning Scans page appears.

     

     Note: If your Tenable Web App Scanning license expires, your web application scans no longer appear in the scans table.

3. For a Tenable Vulnerability Management scan, in the Folders section, click the Trash folder.

   The scan table updates to show the scans in the trash folder.

4. Do one of the following:

   • Select a single scan:

     1. In the scans table, roll over the scan you want to delete.

        The action buttons appear in the row.

     2. In the row, click the button.

        A confirmation window appears.

   • Select multiple scans:

     1. In the scans table, select the check box next to the scans you want to delete.

        The action bar appears at the bottom of the page.

     2. In the action bar, click the button.

        A confirmation window appears.

5. In the confirmation window, click Delete.

   Tenable Vulnerability Management deletes the scan or scans you selected.

Delete a remediation scan

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

Required Scan Permissions: Can Configure

When you delete a remediation scan, you delete the scan configuration and scan results for all users the scan is shared with.

Note:Tenable Vulnerability Management deletes scan results older than 90 days.

To delete a remediation scan:

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

   The left navigation plane appears.

2. In the left navigation plane, in the Vulnerability Management section, click Scans.

   The Scans page appears.

3. In the Folders section, click the Remediation Scans folder.

   The scan table updates to display remediation scans that you own or that other users have shared with you. By default, the rows are sorted by Created Date.

4. Do one of the following:

   • Select a single scan:

     1. In the scans table, roll over the scan you want to delete.

        The action buttons appear in the row.

     2. In the row, click the button.

        A confirmation window appears.

   • Select multiple scans:

     1. In the scans table, select the check box next to the scans you want to delete.

        The action bar appears at the bottom of the page.

     2. In the action bar, click the button.

        A confirmation window appears.

5. In the confirmation window, click Delete.

   Tenable Vulnerability Management deletes the scan or scans you selected.

   Note: Tenable Vulnerability Management keeps up to 10,000 of the most recent remediation scan results. Once you have more than 10,000 remediation scan results, Tenable Vulnerability Management deletes the scan results, starting with the oldest result.