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Hands-on playbook · 50 min

Tenable Playbook: Export APIs, Agents, Differential Sync and a Fix-First Queue That Survives Rate Limits

A hands-on Tenable guide checked against Tenable's developer reference: least-privilege API users, the three-step export API and its limits, differential exports that close tickets, a KEV and EPSS fix-first queue, agent linking and golden-image hygiene, and a lab you can run with Nessus Essentials.

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WHAT YOU WILL DO
  • The export API in three calls, and the limits that break naive integrations
  • Why an export with no time filter silently returns only 30 days
  • Differential exports that include FIXED, so tickets close themselves
  • A fix-first queue from CISA KEV and EPSS filters, tested in code
  • Agent linking, update channels, scan caps and cloned-image 409 errors
  • A lab with Nessus Essentials: discovery, then non-credentialed versus credentialed
  • A 90-day rollout and an incident-style interview drill
SECTIONS
  1. 01Under the hood
  2. 02Hands-on lab
  3. 03Recipes
  4. 04Rollout runbook
  5. 05Troubleshooting
  6. 06Interview drill
  7. 07Sources
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