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Nessus server

In any case - get activation code at Tennable page.

Download Nessus from here.

Docker option

(as per the following doc)

[!NOTE] No persistent directory Hence Nessus probably won’t be updated?

Create docker-compose.yml as follows:

services:


  nessus:
    image: tenable/nessus:latest-ubuntu
    restart: always
    container_name: nessus
    environment:
      USERNAME: admin
      PASSWORD: <password>
      ACTIVATION_CODE: <code>
    ports:
      - 443:8834

Followed by the following commands:

wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexander-potemkin/quickies/main/docker_ubuntu.sh | bash
sudo usermod -aG docker `whoami`
docker compose up
docker compose up -d
docker container ls
docker-compose down

Deb option

curl --request GET --url 'https://www.tenable.com/downloads/api/v2/pages/nessus/files/Nessus-10.9.2-ubuntu1604_amd64.deb' --output 'Nessus-10.9.2-ubuntu1604_amd64.deb'
sudo  dpkg -i Nessus*.deb
sudo service nessusd start