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How 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.
Perform a simple network scan on the virtual machine and open the scan results:

Navigate to the export functionality and select the Nessus format to download the .nessus version of the report:

Navigate to the export functionality and select the Nessus format to download the HTML version of the report by selecting the required options:

Navigate to the export functionality and select the Nessus ...

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