As George Theall previously posted: ---------------------------- The figures reported on nessus.org reflect the number of files in a particular feed, which means they account for a number of include files that aren't themselves plugins (66, I believe, in the registered and direct feeds), but don't account for the C-language plugins (*.nes).
Your Nessus client doesn't report: - plugins in the "Port Scanners" family (they have their own section in the client). - plugins that call an external program that can't be found in the PATH on your Nessus server when it started. Examples may include nikto.pl, ~25 hydra-related plugins, etc. - plugins that make use of features not available in your version of Nessus. Examples may include 50+ compiled plugins (*.nbin) that require Nessus 3.x. - plugins that are merely placeholders but have effectively been removed from the feed; eg, badblue_directory_traversal.nasl, sendmail_wiz.nasl, snmp_detect.nasl, etc. ---------------------------- This should account for your 100-200 plugins not showing up in the NessusWX client. Ron hariprasad hariprasad wrote: > Ron, > > How many is major? -- 100-200 plugins > Nessus 2 or Nessus 3? -- nessus 3.0.6 > Which client are you using? -- nessusWX > Do you have the Direct Feed or are you using registered feed? -- registered > feed . > Did you try recompiling your plugins on your Nessus daemon? -- no idea !! > Which OS flavor of Nessus is your daemon running on? -- Linux / > windows servers > > OBSERVATION : After downloading & compiling the ALL-2.0 .tar.gz which > includes ( .nasl ,.nbin ) for this month there were 15252 plugins listed on > server .whereas > on NessusWX 3.0.5 windows client -- communications-- connect tab - there > were 15028 plugins displayed . > > Cheers > Harry > > > > > > > > On 8/2/07, Ron Gula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hariprasad hariprasad wrote: >>> Greetings . >>> >>> In last few plugins upgradtion's there was a major plugin count gap >> between >>> plugins listed on nessus server ( .nasl ,.nbin , etc ) and in client >> "select >>> plugins" tab after connecting to the nessus server . >> Please post much more detailed information: >> >> How many is major? >> >> Nessus 2 or Nessus 3? >> >> Which client are you using? >> >> Do you have the Direct Feed or are you using registered feed? >> >> Did you try recompiling your plugins on your Nessus daemon? >> >> Which OS flavor of Nessus is your daemon running on? >> >> Also, please refer to George Theall's previous post on the topic here: >> >> http://www.networksecurityarchive.org/html/Nessus-Users/2007-07/msg00026.html >> >> Ron Gula, CTO >> Tenable Network Security _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
