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.

This page is broken down into two tabs:

  • Asset License — License usage for all Tenable products in the current container.

  • Account Details — Organization-level details such as your account information.

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:

  1. In the left navigation, click Settings.

    The Settings page appears.

  2. Click the License tile.

    The License Information overview appears. By default, the Asset License tab is active.

Asset License

View information about your Tenable licenses in the Asset License tab, which appears by default when you open the License Information page. The Asset License tab shows license usage for products in the current Tenable container. Details appear in panels, separated by product.

If you have Tenable One:

  1. To view its components, in the bottom-right corner, click Show More.

    All Tenable One components and their licensing information appears.

The following information appears on the Asset License tab:

Section Description

Product Panels

This section contains a summary of all of your Tenable licenses and usage.

Product summary

In the top left corner, you can view the following:

  • Product name — The name of the Tenable product.

  • Container UUID  — The unique identifier for your Tenable container.

  • Last Updated — The date and time of the last update.

  • Details — To the right of the Last Updated date, 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.

  • % Used — A ring chart that summarizes your asset license usage for the Tenable product.

This section also contains the following:

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

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

  • Assets remaining — The number of Tenable asset licenses you have purchased that remain unused.

  • Assets over — If you are using more Tenable licenses than you have purchased, then this indicates the number of assets over your allocated licenses, accounting for license ratios.

  • Licenses Expires/Expired — The date your license expires or expired.

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.

Tenable One product panels

The Tenable One product panels appear when you click Show More on the Tenable One panel. Each product panel contains an overview of the licenses allocated to each Tenable One product, and license usage for each product.

Product summary

At the top of the panel you can view the following:

  • Product name — The name of the Tenable One product you have licensed.

  • % Used — A ring chart that summarizes your asset license usage for the product.

Licenses allocated

The total number of your Tenable asset licenses allocated to the 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.

Licenses remaining

The number of Tenable asset licenses you have allocated to the product that remain unused.

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.
View Trend

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. Below the chart, click a component to show or hide it.

Asset Breakdown

(Cloud Security and Third Party Connectors only)

When you click Asset Breakdown, a list of resources and their asset counts appears.

  • Cloud Security panel asset breakdown:

    • Provider — The name of the provider used by Cloud Security.

    • Resource Type — The type associated with the resource.

    • Count — The number of assets associated with the resource.

  • Third Party Connectors panel asset breakdown:

    • Single Source Assets — The number of assets associated with only one connector.

    • Multi Source Assets — The number of assets associated with multiple connectors. When an asset is associated with multiple connectors, the asset is counted only once towards the license.

    • Licenses Used — The total number of licenses used by third-party connector assets.

    • Connectors table

      • Source Name — The name of the third-party connector.

      • Total — The total number of assets associated with the connector.

      • Single Source — The number of assets that are only associated with this connector, and not with any other connectors.

Account Details

View your account details in the Account Details tab, which contains information about your organization and your Tenable products. It is always the same, regardless of which Tenable container you are using.

Required User Role: Administrator

The Account Details tab contains the following information:

Section

Description

Account Information

View your account information:

  • Account Name — The name of your organization.

  • Customer ID — Your unique Tenable customer identification number.

  • Tenable Contact Information — The name and email of your Tenable customer success manager.

Tenable One Licenses

Under Active Product Subscriptions, view information about your Tenable One licenses, including version, your container's unique ID, your allocated assets, and your Tenable asset license's start and end dates.

Also view a table with the following columns:

  • Product Type — The type of product (for example, Cloud).

  • Activation Key — The license key for your product.

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

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

  • Assets Used — The number of assets you have used.

  • Assets Allocated — The total number of assets available for all your Tenable One products.

Tip: Next to a product, click the drop-down > to view information about your Tenable One components by Product Type, Percent Allocated, Assets Used, and Assets Allocated.

Standalone Product Licenses

Under Active Product Subscriptions view information about your standalone licenses.

Note: On-premise products such as Tenable Agent or Tenable Cloud Security do not appear here.

In a table, view the following:

  • Product Name — The name of your Tenable product, for example Tenable PCI ASV.

  • Container UUID — The unique ID for the container.

  • Activation Key — The license key for your product.

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

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

  • Assets Used — The number of assets you have used.

  • Assets Purchased — The total number of assets you have purchased for that product.

  • Start Date — The date your Tenable subscription started.

  • End Date — The date your Tenable subscription ends.