Hello All,
I'm new to nessus, and am having two problems:
1) i need to speed up the scans, if possible
2) it's hard to know what is possible to configure, and how.
I have 6 questions. If anyone can help with any one of them, I'd be
very grateful.
Thanks in Advance,
Jon Detert
1) speed issues
it took about 5 hours to scan 2286 IPs, using only 3 categories of plugins,
'RPC', 'Windows', and 'Windows : User management'.
Any suggestions on how to make it finish faster?
Here are what I believe to be relevant bits from my nessusrc file:
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max_hosts = 20
max_checks = 20.
checks_read_timeout = 5
delay_between_tests = 1
ping_hosts = no
reverse_lookup = no
unscanned_closed = yes
I'm running nessusd on an Intel PIII 800MHz w. 256 MB RAM
2) target specification
As far as I can tell, my only choice is to give the client a file that lists
every ip i want to scan. Is there some way to give it network definitions
instead? Like 10.1.8.0/24 ?
3) is there a way to suppress reports less than the 'security hole' level?
i.e. What if I don't care about the 'notes' and 'warnings' - if i only
care about the 'security holes'?
4) output sorting
Is there a way to make the output sort by IP ?
5) week Ms. IPC$ passwords
Is there way I can tell it what usernames & passwords to try to
connect to IPC$ shares?
6) Can someone point me to a reference that explains what all the
options in my .nessusrc file mean, and what their possible values
are?
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Happy Landings,
Jon Detert
IT Systems Administrator, Milwaukee School of Engineering
1025 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
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