Hi Brooks, In your shoes I would choose the first system.
>>1) VA Linux 1220: Dual PIII 733mhz processors with 512MB ram I actually own a very similar system at home, the Full On 2x2, in tower form, same CPU set up. Nessus works very well with multiple CPU's and the memory would be helpful. Do remember that such a system with those resources will be able to run quite a few plugins and do so quickly. Also the PIII will have more onboard cache for the CPU than the Celron's, while this is of a limited benefit in an application such as Nessus, it will still be a performance enhancer for the OS and network functions in general. Be sure to throttle the scans against individual systems to ensure faster response times and to reduce the likelyhood of causing service interruptions with your systems by overloading them. Consider setting up your scan options so that you scan many concurrent hosts but with only a few concurrent checks per system. Something like 70+ concurrent hosts but only 3-4 checks per system. This will still cause a lot of network bandwidth use but it will spread it across to many systems. I can make another recommendation that would allow you to use all three systems, concurrently to scan with, but that would be shameless self advertising. ;) Good luck. Kind Regards, Dan Bowman Director of Support Tenable Security http://www.tenablesecurity.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] >---- Original Message ---- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Server Advice for Nessus >Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 17:19:09 -0400 > >>I am stuck between choosing from the follow servers to perform >simultaneous nessus scans for clients: >> >> >>1) VA Linux 1220: Dual PIII 733mhz processors with 512MB ram >> >>2) Dell PowerEdge 400SC: Single Celeron 2.0GHZ with 256MB ram >> >>3) IBM eServer: Single 950mhz celeron with 256MB ram >> >> >>Nessus will be running on RedHat 9. >> >>Please advise which would be the best choice.... >> >>Thank you...
