On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:38:47AM -0500, eric wrote: > Is there any way to not have this happen with nessus scan-lite? It doesn't > seem to take as long with scan-lite, but it still takes quite a bit of time.
There is a 'fast_login' option in NTP that causes the server to skip sending the plugin list. I'm pretty sure Net::Nessus::ScanLite supports this, but I don't know how to enable it. The drawback is that the client really still needs to get a list of plugins from the server. > Basically what we have is a net registration application that uses scan-lite > and has an external server scan the registered host. As you may imagine, > waiting 2 minutes to register doesn't work for 3000 people! :) Sounds like you're interested in developing a web interface to launching scans. Have you looked into Inprotect or Tenable's own Lightning Console? If you're still interested in rolling your own, you might want to consider simply defining some standard scans or letting people select plugin families and then using one of the update-nessusrc scripts to create the appropriate config file before launching a scan. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
