Specifications

where Nessus is installed, and Nessus must be on an IPv6 capable network (Nessus cannot scan IPv6 resources over

IPv4, but it can enumerate IPv6 interfaces via credentialed scans over IPv4). Both full and compressed IPv6 notation is

supported when initiating scans.

Scanning IPv6 Global Unicast IP address ranges is not supported unless the IPs are entered separately (i.e.,

list format). Nessus does not support ranges expressed as hyphenated ranges or CIDR addresses. Nessus

does support Link-local ranges with the “link6” directive as the scan target or local link with “%eth0”.

Evaluation to Licensed Upgrade

If you install Nessus with an evaluation license, it is strongly recommended that you uninstall it before migrating to a fully

licensed copy. Any policies or scan results you created can be exported and re-imported into the new installation.

Unix/Linux

Upgrading

This section explains how to upgrade Nessus from a previous Nessus installation.

Download the latest version of Nessus from the Nessus download page or through the Tenable Support Portal. Confirm

the integrity of the installation package by comparing the download MD5 checksum with the one listed in the product

release notes.

Unless otherwise noted, all commands must be performed as the system’s root user. Regular user accounts

typically do not have the privileges required to install this software.

The following table provides upgrade instructions for the Nessus server on all previously supported platforms. Configuration

settings and users that were created previously will remain intact.

Make sure any running scans have finished before stopping nessusd.

Any special upgrade instructions are provided in a note following the example. Nessus can be installed with several

package managers including rpm and yum. Syntax for installation using rpm is shown below. These commands can be

replaced by your package manager of choice in most cases. For example, administrators that prefer to use yum would use

the following syntax:

# yum -y localinstall [pkg]

Platform

Upgrade Instructions

Red Hat ES 5, CentOS 5, and Oracle Linux 5; Red Hat ES 6, CentOS 6, and Oracle Linux 6; Red Hat ES 7,

CentOS 7, and Oracle Linux 7 (64 bit)

Upgrade Commands

# service nessusd stop

Use one of the appropriate commands below that corresponds to the version of Red

Hat you are running:

# rpm -Uvh Nessus-6.1.0-es5.x86_64.rpm

# rpm -Uvh Nessus-6.1.0-es6.x86_64.rpm