License Information

On the License Information page, you can view a complete breakdown of your Tenable products and how many asset licenses they are using. You can view this information in multiple ways, including visual overviews by product or time period that enable you to spot trends such as temporary usage spikes or product misconfigurations.

Tip: For details on how Tenable licenses work and how assets or resources are licensed in each product, see Licensing Tenable Products.

View the License Information Page

To view the License Information page, in the top navigation bar, click and on the page that appears, click License Information.

The License Information page shows license usage for all products in your current Tenable container. Details appear in panels, broken down by Tenable product. If you have Tenable One, to view its components, in the bottom-right corner, click Show More.

The following information appears on the License Information page.

Section Description
Product summary

Name of the product and the unique identifier for your Tenable container, the date and time of the last update, and a ring chart which summarizes your asset license usage.

Click Details to view the following:

  • Site Name — The cluster containing your installed products in Tenable's cloud.

  • Region — The geographic region in which your cluster is located.

  • VM Plugin Set — The version for the product's Nessus plugin set.

  • VM Plugin Updated — The date and time the Nessus plugin set was last updated.

This section also contains the following:

  • Assets included in subscription — The number of Tenable asset licenses you have purchased for that product.

  • Assets used — The total number of asset licenses used or assessed from your product subscription.

  • Overused assets — If using more Tenable licenses than you have purchased, indicates that number, accounting for any license ratio.

  • Expires On — The date your license expires.

Usage Breakdown & Trend

See visual breakdowns of your asset license usage:

  • Bar Chart — (Tenable One only) View your total asset license use by Tenable One component in a bar chart.

  • Usage Over Time – View your asset license use over time in a line chart where the X-axis is the time period and the Y-axis is the number of asset licenses used. Filter the chart by time period. For Tenable One, below the chart, click a component to show or hide it.

Licenses allocated The total number of your Tenable asset licenses allocated to a product.
Licenses used

The total number of Tenable asset licenses used in that product. If you have Tenable One, this number is the total of all asset licenses used across all Tenable One components.

Tip: The type of asset you license varies by product. To learn more, see Tenable One Components.
Overused licenses

(Tenable One-only) If any, your license overage—that is, the number of extra licenses you are using. To learn more, see Tenable Cloud Overage Process.
License ratio

If any, the ratio against which the assets in your environment are multiplied to determine how many Tenable asset licenses you need to purchase. For example, if you have 1,000 assets to assign to Tenable Identity Exposure, you will need 500 Tenable asset licenses, since the ratio is 0.5. To learn more, see Licensing Tenable One.
Tenable assets allocated The total number of Tenable asset licenses you have assigned to a product, accounting for any ratio.
Tenable assets used The total number of Tenable asset licenses used by that product, accounting for any ratio.