Upgrade Nessus Scanner to 8.13.1 (RHEL7)

- Download the Latest Version of Nessus and copy it to the /tmp directory

o Navigate to = https://www.tenable.com/downloads/

- Uninstall Previous Version of Nessus

o Stop the running Nessus service

• #/bin/systemctl stop nessusd.service

o Determine the currently installed Nessus package name

• #rpm –qa | grep Nessus

o Remove/uninstall Nessus

• #rpm –e Nessus

- Install Nessus 8.13.1

o Navigate to the /tmp directory

• #cd /tmp

o Install the Nessus 8.13.1 rpm

• #rpm –ivh “filename”.rpm

o Start the Nessus service

• #/bin/systemctl start nessusd.service

o You may receive a message “Warning: nessusd.service changed on disk”. If you do run this command:

• #systemctl daemon-reload

- Confirm the Nessus 8.13.1 installation

o Open a browser and navigate to https://localhost:8834

• Nessus may take a while “compiling plugins” during the initial login

o Log into Nessus with the necessary credentials

o Click “settings” and the version should now reflect the 8.13.1 update