Job Queues

Tenable Vulnerability Management queues scan jobs before separating them into tasks for scan distribution.

Scanner Group Job Queues

Tenable Vulnerability Management queues jobs for a scanner group in the order it receives the jobs. When the scanner group has available job capacity, Tenable Vulnerability Management breaks the earliest job in the queue into tasks and assigns them to each of the scanners in the group, one scanner after another in succession (a “round robin” method). Tenable Vulnerability Management dispatches the tasks to the scanners assigned to the job.

Scanner Job Queues

Tenable Vulnerability Management also queues jobs for a scanner in the order it receives the jobs, regardless of the origin of a scan job.

For example, the job queue for a scanner may include scan jobs that were assigned directly to the scanner as well as jobs distributed to the scanner by the groups the scanner belongs to.