----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Chang" Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:16:07 -0700 To: Subject: Dedicated Nessus Server
> I am currently doing some research into what it would take hardware wise to build a > dedicated nessus server.� This machine would be responsible for running nessus with > a custom set of plugins for potentially thousands of hosts.� Has anyone done > anything > similar to this?� If so, please let me know what kinds of hardware you used > (IDE/SCSI, > x86, etc) and if there are any issues I should be aware of. I have several servers running Nessus, and I don't really think that there are any special considerations to take into account. I use HP Proliant DL 360 systems, nice and small at 1U, with 2x 3.06 GHz processors and (IIRC) 4gb of RAM. Honestly, I think this is overbuilt, but it is the standard buy for low end servers. I can saturate the network well before I even consider exhausting RAM or CPU power. As for disk space and speed, I'm not sure thats a big deal, since you are mostly going to be doing network i/o. Really, any decent low end server will be able to do the task, since the bottelneck will be the NIC in nearly all situations. As for performance, I can scan, say, 2 /16's in 8 hours. It takes about 45 mins to scan a ~50% populated /24. I use lots of plugins (800ish) and do a TCP Connect scan, so, to me, it is pretty fast. HTH, Ds � _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
