RE: Nessus reboots HP - UX 10.2 systems during scan?

[Gilbert, Austin]

Title: Message

Mark,

 

Quite often, the port scan itself is the cause of the reboot, not a plugin.  I'm not saying it's the case here, however, I have had much of the same experience.  We scan our servers during the standard outage time becuase of this very issue. 

 

Austin

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Snellgrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 8:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Nessus reboots HP - UX 10.2 systems during scan?

We recently scanned a couple of HP-UX 10.2 servers using Nessus and these servers apparently rebooted.  Needless to say, the sys admin is now hesitant when we approach him with plans to scan other servers of his.

We had "Safe Checks Only" enabled, yet these servers still rebooted.  Can anyone point me to where I can find out which plug-in would cause the server to reboot?  I've searched the list-serv, but only came up with references to installation problems with Nessus and HP-UX 10.2.

We also had the same problem when we scanned our old switchgate terminal servers.  Would it have been the same plug-ins that rebooted these devices as well?

Thanks,
Mark
Nessus Newbie

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