Scan Status

Tenable Vulnerability Management provides a scan status for each of your configured scans.

If the scan is in progress, Tenable Vulnerability Management shows the number of scan tasks completed as a percentage.

For example, if you scan less than 120 IP addresses in a single scan, Tenable Vulnerability Management creates a single scan task and the progress percentage changes from 0% to 100% when it completes.

However, if you target more than 120 IP addresses, Tenable Vulnerability Management creates multiple scan tasks. After each task completes, the percentage changes to reflect the number of completed tasks. For example, a scan that targets 300 IP addresses is split into three scan tasks, and as each task completes, the progress bar updates the percentage to reflect the completed tasks.

Note: Pausing a scan causes Tenable Vulnerability Management to move any completed results to processing. When you resume the scan, Tenable Vulnerability Management creates a new scan task or tasks for incomplete results. Therefore, pausing a scan can cause the progress percentage to update.

Tip: For Tenable Vulnerability Management scans, you can hover over the scan status to view more status information in a pop-up window, such as the number of targets scanned and the elapsed or final scan time. The window shows different information based on the scan's current status.

Tenable Vulnerability Management scans can have the following status values:

Status	Description
Tenable Vulnerability Management Scans Tip: The typical Tenable Vulnerability Management scan status flow is as follows: Initializing, Running, Publishing Results, Completed.
Aborted	Either the latest run of the scan is incomplete because Tenable Vulnerability Management or the scanner encountered problems during the run, or the scan remained queued without running for four or more hours. For more information about the problems encountered during the run, view the scan warnings.
Canceled	At user request, Tenable Vulnerability Management successfully stopped the latest run of the scan.
Completed	The latest run of the scan is complete.
Empty	The scan is either empty (the scan is new or has yet to run) or pending (Tenable Vulnerability Management is processing a request to run the scan).
Imported	A user imported the scan. You cannot run imported scans. Scan history is unavailable for imported scans.
Pausing	A user paused the scan, and Tenable Vulnerability Management is processing the action.
Paused	At user request, Tenable Vulnerability Management successfully paused active tasks related to the scan. The paused tasks continue to fill the task capacity of the scanner that the tasks were assigned to. 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 then aborts the related tasks on the scanner and categorizes the scan as aborted.
Pending	Tenable Vulnerability Management has the scan queued to launch and is assigning scan tasks to the assigned sensors. Note: Tenable Vulnerability Management aborts scans that remain in Pending status for more than four hours. If Tenable Vulnerability Management aborts your scan, modify your scan schedule to reduce the number of overlapping scans. If you still have issues, contact Tenable Support.
Publishing Results	Tenable Vulnerability Management processes and stores the scan results data for you to view and use in the Tenable Vulnerability Management user interface. The Publishing Results status begins once the Running status reaches 100%.
Resuming	Tenable Vulnerability Management is in the process of restarting tasks after the user resumed the scan. Tenable Vulnerability Management instructs the scanner to start the tasks from the point at which the scan was paused. If Tenable Vulnerability Management or the scanner encounters problems when resuming the scan, the scan fails, and Tenable Vulnerability Management updates the scan status to aborted.
Running	The scan is currently running. While this status is shown, the scan's sensors complete their assigned scan tasks, and Tenable Vulnerability Management processes the scan results. The progress bar shows next to the status when a scan is running. The progress bar shows the percentage of the completed tasks.
Stopping	A user stopped the scan, the scan timed out, or Tenable Vulnerability Management is stopping the scan after all associated scan tasks are complete.