Tobias Glemser wrote: > Nicolas, >> Nessus identifies if the remote host is running under VMWare with >> vmware_detect.nasl. > Hm, you're right. There also exists a plugin to identify a vmware-server. > > vmware_detect.nasl relies primarly on the MAC adress, but the list seems > not to be complete for not discovering my VMware :) > vmware_server_detect.nasl checks the banner of the VMware remote-console > but also failed to identify my server. Hopefully I got time to write a > fix during my holidays. > > Cheers, > > Toby >
We've blogged about this in the past: http://blog.tenablesecurity.com/2006/07/enhanced_vmware.html The plugin requires either a MAC address (from a local ping) or a credentialed OS check. Ron Gula Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
