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Nessus has detected that API access on this scanner is disabled.

Nessus displays warning “Nessus has detected that API access on this scanner is disabled” during usage.

To fix this issue, the Nessus service must be stopped, the configuration reset, Nessus restarted and then registered using your previous registration key.

1. Stop the Nessus service:
service nessusd stop

2. Reset the configuration:
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessuscli fix --reset

3. Start the Nessus service:
service nessusd start

4. Register Nessus using your previous registration key:
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessuscli fetch --register xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx

5. Login to Nessus to update plugins.

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List of Tenable Nessus plugins

AIX Local Security Checks
Amazon Linux Local Security Checks
Backdoors
Brute force attacks
CentOS Local Security Checks
CGI abuses
CGI abuses : XSS
CISCO
Databases
Debian Local Security Checks
Default Unix Accounts
Denial of Service
DNS
F5 Networks Local Security Checks
Fedora Local Security Checks
Firewalls
FreeBSD Local Security Checks
FTP
Gain a shell remotely
General
Gentoo Local Security Checks
HP-UX Local Security Checks
Huawei Local Security Checks
Incident Response
Junos Local Security Checks
MacOS X Local Security Checks
Mandriva Local Security Checks
Misc.
Netware
Oracle Linux Local Security Checks
OracleVM Local Security Checks
Palo Alto Local Security Checks
Peer-To-Peer File Sharing
PhotonOS Local Security Checks
Red Hat Local Security Checks
RPC
SCADA
Scientific Linux Local Security Checks
Service detection
Settings
Slackware Local Security Checks
SMTP problems
SNMP
Solaris Local Security Checks
SuSE Local Security Checks
Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Virtuozzo Local Security Checks
VMware ESX Local Security Checks
Web Servers
Windows
Windows : Microsoft Bulletins
Windows : User management