Exports the a scan in the specified format. Use the Check scan export status endpoint to see the status of the requested export. On receiving a ready
status, download the export file using the Download exported scan endpoint.
If you request a scan export in the nessus
file format, but do not specify filters for the export, Tenable Vulnerability Management truncates the plugins output data in the export file at 5 MB or 5,000,000 characters, and appends TRUNCATED
(bracketed by three asterisks) at the end of the output in the export file. You can obtain the full plugins output by exporting a scan in any file format other than nessus
or db
.
Additionally, scan exports in the db
format do not contain the full scan data set, and they are sourced from the scan task prior to the scan being indexed/processed. Scan db
exports only contain the data for the hosts specified in the export request with the asset_id
body parameter. Agent scan db
exports contain only one host (the agent), and you can't export triggered agent scans.
Note: Vulnerability findings with a first_observed
date within the last 14 days are marked in the exported results as being in the New
state. Vulnerability findings with a first_observed
date older than 14 days are marked in the exported results as being in the Active
state.