I'm trying to figure out exactly how the knowledge base works. Below are my current settings. If I launch a scan and then kill it half way through, I can re-launch the scan and it skips over the addresses already scanned picking up where the scan was stopped. I can then look at the output file and have a complete report.
If I launch another scan on the same hosts before the kb_max_age expires, the scan doest not run. I end up having a blank output file. Here I would thing the output file would be that of the last valid scan. I have to delete the files in the knowledge base directory or lower the kb_max_age in order for the scan to run. Is this how it is supposed to work? Is there any documentation that explains how this works? .nessusrc settings: save_knowledge_base = yes only_test_hosts_whose_kb_we_dont_have = no only_test_hosts_whose_kb_we_have = no kb_restore = yes kb_dont_replay_scanners = yes kb_dont_replay_info_gathering = yes kb_dont_replay_attacks = yes kb_dont_replay_denials = yes kb_max_age = 864000 ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
