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Vulnerability Scanning With Nessus

From Tony Bradley, CISSP-ISSAP, for About.com

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Select Server

Often, you will conduct the actual Nessus scan from your local computer, or Local Host. However, if you have a different machine, or a server dedicated to running the Nessus scans, you can specify here which computer to use for conducting the scan.
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