Enable or Disable a Sensor

Required Tenable Vulnerability Management User Role: Scan Manager or Administrator

To enable or disable a sensor:

1. In the left navigation, click Sensors.

   The Sensors page appears. By default, the Nessus Scanners tab is active and Linked Scanners is selected in the drop-down box.

2. Click the appropriate sensor type tab.

   The sensors table appears.

3. (Optional) If the sensor is a Nessus Scanner, select Linked Scanners in the drop-down box to view on-premises scanners linked to Tenable Vulnerability Management. For more information, see Linked Scanners.

4. In the table of linked sensors, do one of the following:

   • Right-click the sensor you want to enable or disable.

     The action options appear next to your cursor.

   • In the Actions column, click the button you want to enable or disable.

     The action options appear in the row.

5. Do one of the following:

   • To enable a sensor, click the Enable button.
   • To disable a sensor, click the Disable button.

   Tenable Vulnerability Management enables or disables the sensor.