Did you notice what part was taking a long time? Was it the actual port scanning, or the checks after? What's your port scanner configuration look like? Are you doing a udp scan?
Regards, Adam Mazza On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Jonathan C. Detert wrote: > > 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: > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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? > > -- > Happy Landings, > > Jon Detert > IT Systems Administrator, Milwaukee School of Engineering > 1025 N. Broadway, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 > _______________________________________________ > Nessus mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus > > Adam Mazza PGP Key:http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x382775D1 Key fingerprint = 5A82 FA7F 459C E805 6C00 3211 48AC 6069 3827 75D1 _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
