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How to do it…

Perform the following steps:

Open the Nessus Web Client.
Log in to the Nessus client with the user that you created during installation.
Click on Create a new scan.

Select the Basic Network Scan template and fill in the required details for the scan, such as Name, Description, remote host for scanning, and leave the credentials blank for a noncredential scan:

You can enter the hosts to be scanned in newline or separated by commas. You can also upload a list of the hosts to be scanned:

You can also schedule the scan for a future ...

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