We too have had significant issues with Nessus and Novell. "BindView" is
that preferred alternative, however it is not a free solution.

Ramius
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From: "Wolfgang Kantner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff Sorrells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning Novell Servers causes abended


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> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, at 15:25, Jeff Sorrells wrote:
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> Hello!
>
> > Yesterday I used Nessus version 2.5.8 on Linux Fedora Core 5 to scan 23
> > Novell servers running NetWare 6 SP5.  Of the 23 servers 11 abended and
> > had to be rebooted.  I am using NessusWX for an interface to the server
> > and used the defaults for the scan, except that I dropped the number of
> > host scanned to 10.  One of the 11 servers had an app crash and the
> > entire server stopped responding.
> >
> > Is this pretty common for Novell servers, or did I just hit an unlucky
> > combination and blow things up?
>
> We had many troubles with scanning netware-servers,
> of course it depends which services are activated but
> in general we only do nmap not nessus-scans on our netware-server-"farm"
>
>
> Greetings from Vienna
>
>
> Wolfgang Kantner
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