Target Groups (Deprecated)

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Caution

Target groups were deprecated in Vulnerability Management on February 4th, 2022. Tenable recommends that customers use tags instead to group and scan assets. Please update any existing integrations that your organization has. If you want to automatically migrate your target groups to tags via the API and pyTenable, see Migrate Target Groups to Tags. For more information about tags, see Tags in the Tenable Vulnerability Management User Guide.

User Target Groups

NameValueDescription
No Access0(Default user only) Users assigned this permission cannot configure scans for hosts in the user target group or use hosts in the user target group to filter dashboards.
Can Use16Users assigned this permission can use hosts in the user target groups to filter dashboards and configure scans.

Note: To enable the user to use a target group in the Target Groups option for scan configurations, you must also grant the user Can Scan permissions in an access group for the targets. If you do not, Vulnerability Management excludes the targets from the scan results. For more information, see Access Groups
Can Change32In addition to using hosts in this user target group when configuring scans and filtering dashboards, users assigned this permission can modify any setting for the target group except permissions.

System Target Groups

NameValueDescription
No Access0(Default user only) Users assigned this permission cannot use the system target group to filter dashboards.
Can Use32Caution: System target groups are deprecated; Tenable recommends using user target groups instead.

Users assigned this permission can use hosts in the user target groups to filter dashboards and configure scans.

Note: To enable the user to use a target group in the Target Groups option for scan configurations, you must also grant the user Can Scan permissions in an access group for the targets. If you do not, Vulnerability Management excludes the targets from the scan results. For more information, see Access Groups.