On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:40 AM, George Theall wrote > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:52:14PM -0400, McCray, Aaron W wrote: > >> I am a new Nessus user and I am wondering if there is a command line >> tool/switch, etc that can be run to schedule my scans from the Wintel >> client? > > In theory, NessusWX uses the option "--batch <session>" to launch > scans from the commandline. Here, <session> refers to an existing > NessusWX session which, as far as I know, must be created while > running NessusWX interactively. > > In practice, though, no one seems to have been able to get batch mode > working -- check the list archives. > > [ Oh, if you are really asking about a commandline interface to the > Windows Scheduler service, look into either AT.EXE (Windows NT or > 2000) or SCHTASKS.EXE (XP). ] > > George
I have gotten it to work. I ran NessusWX on a Windows 2000 Server and nessusd running on Debian Linux. I created named batch files for the different systems I wanted to scan and scheduled them to run with the built-in task scheduler program. I had to get NessusWX authenticating with a certificate instead of a password. I don't remember what Windows account I ran it under or if it made a difference. When any updates to nessus came out, I would have to open the sessions with NessusWX manually and fix them. This is the main reason I quit batching scans with NessusWX. The frequency of updates to the nessus plug-ins made it impractical. -Jason PS - I apologize in advance for the legal disclaimer at the bottom of my email message. This is tacked on by our SMTP gateway and I have no control over it. I have also put in a request to have the text wrap at character 72 instead of just a single incredibly long line. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify the sender and delete this e-mail message from your computer. ============================================================================== _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
