Nessus gives you lots of choices when it comes to running the actual vulnerability scan. Provide the username and password that you have created earlier to login. Once the plug-ins are downloaded, it will automatically redirect you to a login screen. (It takes some time to download the plug-in while you are watching the screen, you can go through the vast list of resources we have for Nessus users).
Then the scanner gets registered with Tenable and creates a user.Also you can configure the proxy if needed by giving proxy hostname, proxy username, and password.
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It is one of the full-fledged vulnerability scanners that allow you to detect potential vulnerabilities in systems. Nessus was founded by Renuad Deraison in 1998 to provide the Internet community with a free remote security scanner.