Scanner Groups

You can use scanner groups to organize and manage the scanners linked to your Tenable Vulnerability Management instance. For example, you can add all sensors related to a specific geographical location to a group, for example, a group named "East Coast Scanners."

You can add a scanner to one or more scanner groups.

When you create a scan, you can select the scanner group to use to launch the scan. Alternatively, you can select Auto-Select to enable scan routing for the scan, which assigns scans to scanners based on the targets configured in scanner groups.

Tenable Vulnerability Management determines which scanner in a scanner group to use based on the following criteria:

• The scanner is active and has communicated to Tenable Vulnerability Management within the last 5 minutes.
• The scanner is running the lowest number of active scans and is scanning the lowest number of hosts.

Note: If your organization uses scan networks, you can only add scanners to scanner groups that belong to the same network. For more information, see Networks.

Note: If a remote scanner is part of a Scanner Group and is unlinked during its operations, the scan's operations complete, but Tenable Vulnerability Management does not include the unlinked scanner for future use.

For more information, see the following topics: