Report Settings in Tenable Vulnerability Management Scans

Note: If a scan is based on a user-defined template, you cannot configure Report settings in the scan. You can only modify these settings in the related user-defined template.

The Report settings include the following groups of settings:

Setting Default Value Description
Processing

Override normal verbosity

Disabled

When disabled, provides the standard level of plugin activity in the report. The output does not include the informational plugins 56310, 64582, and 58651.

When enabled, this setting has two options:

  • I have limited disk space. Report as little information as possible — Provides less information about plugin activity in the report to minimize impact on disk space.

  • Report as much information as possible — Provides more information about plugin activity in the report. When this option is selected, the output includes the informational plugins 56310, 64582, and 58651.

Show missing patches that have been superseded

Enabled

When enabled, includes superseded patch information in the scan report.

Hide results from plugins initiated as a dependency

Enabled

When enabled, the list of dependencies is not included in the report. If you want to include the list of dependencies in the report, disable this setting.
Output

Designate hosts by their DNS name

Disabled

Uses the host name rather than IP address for report output.

Display hosts that respond to ping

Disabled

Reports hosts that successfully respond to a ping.

Display unreachable hosts

Disabled

When enabled, hosts that did not reply to the ping request are included in the security report as dead hosts. Do not enable this option for large IP blocks.

Caution: Enabling this setting causes the scan to create a finding for every target in the scan, whether responsive or not. This may cause the scan to abort if the number of hosts returned exceeds your license limit. For more information, see Scan Limitations.
Display Unicode characters Disabled

When enabled, Unicode characters appear in plugin output such as usernames, installed application names, and SSL certificate information.

Note: Plugin output may sometimes incorrectly parse or truncate strings with Unicode characters. If this issue causes problems with regular expressions in plugins or custom audits, disable this setting and scan again.