Tenable Nessus Manager

Nessus Manager adds centralized administration and collaboration to your scanning operations. It helps teams coordinate scans, policies, schedules, and results across multiple users and distributed environments, especially when you need agent-based coverage for hard-to-reach endpoints.

Quick Benefits

• Centralize Operations: Unify scan policies, schedules, and results for streamlined team workflows.
• Manage Nessus Agents: Deploy and oversee agents for remote, transient, or hard-to-scan endpoints.
• Extend Coverage: Scale across complex networks and multiple scanner locations from a single console.
• Expert Guidance: Get help sizing, activating, and aligning your rollout.

Nessus Manager: At a Glance

• What it does: Centralized management and collaboration for Nessus scanning resources (scanners, policies, schedules, results), plus dedicated agent management capabilities.
• Who needs it: Teams requiring multi-user coordination, centralized control, or the ability to manage agents in environments where credentialed network scans are restricted.
• License Type: Subscription (plugin feed) via an activation code.
• Typical Terms: 1, 3, or 5 years.
• Activation: Apply your activation code in the Nessus UI (supports both online and offline/controlled registration workflows).

License Overview

A Nessus Manager license activates centralized management and collaboration capabilities for your deployment. It dictates how your teams administer scanners, share policies and schedules, and coordinate scan results across different users or groups.

Operations & Agent Management

Beyond the core detection engine, Nessus Manager supports workflows where multiple administrators, security analysts, or IT owners need controlled access to scanning resources and reporting. Crucially, Tenable provisions Nessus Manager to manage Nessus Agents. This is highly valuable for endpoints that are remote, transient, intermittently connected, or difficult to reach with traditional network scans.

Activation & Sizing

Licensing uses an activation-code model tied to your subscription (plugin feed). This code identifies your licensed product and determines how many remote scanners or agents you can link. You activate it directly in the Nessus interface, with offline registration available for restricted environments. Because deployment goals vary, from central team collaboration to distributed scanning and agent-based coverage, align your entitlement choice to your specific architecture from day one to avoid rework and compliance issues.

Options & Tiers

Features & Benefits

• Centralized Administration & Collaboration: Share scanners, scan policies, schedules, and results across multiple users and groups to standardize your vulnerability workflows.
• Agent Management: Deploy agents for hard-to-reach endpoints where network scanning is unreliable (remote users, segmented networks, transient assets).
• Distributed Coverage: Extend your scanner footprint across complex networks and geographically distributed sites from one central console.
• Consistent Experience: Maintain familiar scan policy and results workflows while drastically improving team coordination.

Compatibility & Requirements

• Defined deployment model (single site vs. multi-site).
• Defined admin roles, users, and access model.
• Agent usage plan (endpoint count, OS mix, connectivity patterns).

Activation Guide For Nessus Manager

1. Choose: Select your edition and term.
2. Receive: Get your activation code.
3. Apply: Enter the activation code in Nessus (Settings → Overview).
4. Offline Option: Use the offline registration workflow for restricted environments if needed.
5. Verify: Confirm your status, expiration, and linked components (agents/scanners).

Pricing Factors & Quoting

Pricing for Nessus Manager depends heavily on your subscription term, the scale of your deployment (single vs. multi-site), and whether you plan to link and manage additional components like agents or remote scanners. Because operational requirements vary drastically, especially when agent coverage and distributed scanning are involved, the most accurate pricing comes from quoting against your actual architecture and rollout plan.