Pause or Resume a Scan

Required Scan Permissions: Can Control

You can pause scans that you want to stop temporarily. When you pause a scan, Tenable Vulnerability Management pauses all active tasks for that scan and concludes the scanner's local scan task. Paused scans do not consume scanner resources, and other scans can run while there is a paused scan. Tenable Vulnerability Management does not dispatch new tasks from a paused scan job. If the scan remains in a paused state for more than 14 days, the scan times out. Tenable Vulnerability Management terminates the related tasks on the scanner and categorizes the scan as aborted.

You can resume scans that you previously paused. When you resume a scan, Tenable Vulnerability Management instructs the scanner to start the tasks from the point at which the scan was paused. If Tenable Vulnerability Management encounters problems when resuming the scan, the scan fails, and Tenable Vulnerability Management categorizes the scan as aborted. Tenable Vulnerability Management does not dispatch new tasks from a paused scan job. If the scan remains in a paused state for more than 14 days, the scan times out. Tenable Vulnerability Management terminates the related tasks on the scanner and categorizes the scan as aborted.

To pause or resume a scan:

1. In the left navigation, click Scans.

   The Scans page appears.

2. In the scans table, roll over the scan.

3. Do one of the following:

   • To pause the scan, click the button in the row.
   • To resume the scan, click the button in the row.

   A confirmation window appears.

4. In the confirmation window, click Pause or Resume as appropriate.

   Tenable Vulnerability Management pauses or resumes the scan.