John - No need to apologise, I'm the one using Windows :o(
But I will try the options out and see what happens From: John Scherff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 August 2007 18:01 To: Mel Popple; [email protected] Subject: RE: command line Nessus on Windows My bad... as I was clicking send, I saw the "on Windows" part just as the message left the building. ________________________________ From: John Scherff Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:00 AM To: 'Mel Popple'; [email protected] Subject: RE: command line Nessus on Windows # NessusClient --help NessusClient, version 1.0.2. Common options : NessusClient [-vnh] [-c .rcfile] [-V] [-T <format>] Batch-mode scan: NessusClient -q [-pPS] <host> <port> <user> <pass> <targets-file> <result-file> List sessions : NessusClient -s -q <host> <port> <user> <pass> Restore session: NessusClient -R <sessionid> -q <host> <port> <user> <pass> <result-file> Report conversion : NessusClient -i in.[nsr|nbe] -o out.[html|xml|nsr|nbe] General options : -v : shows version number -h : shows this help -n : No pixmaps -T : Output format: 'nbe', 'html', 'html_graph', 'text', 'xml', 'old-xml' 'tex' or 'nsr' -V : make the batch mode display status messages to the screen. -x : override SSL "paranoia" question preventing nessus from checking certificates. The batch mode (-q) arguments are : host : nessusd host port : nessusd host port user : user name pass : password targets : file containing the list of targets result : name of the file where nessus will store the results -p : obtain list of plugins installed on the server. -P : obtain list of server and plugin preferences. -S : issue SQL output for -p and -P (experimental). ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mel Popple Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 7:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: command line Nessus on Windows Afternoon, Is there a comprehensive list of all the options and switches that are available when scripting the latest version of Nessus using the Windows Command line tools? I'm pretty new to Nessus and I've read the PDFs on the site but what I am trying to do is create scripts that will target individual servers and not ip ranges. This is easy enough to do by just repeating the 'NessusCmd.exe servername' command on different lines in a batch file but what would be good is to have a text file that lists the servers (I'll probably generated this file from information within a spreadsheet) and just pull the names from that. I'd also like to send the results files from different servers to separate folders. And finally is there a way to download the updates from the site, transfer them to another workstation on USB stick and then import them using the UpdateCmd cli tool? I'm presuming this will be another switch to use with the command. Sadly running it on a *nix box isn't an option, we're a windows only place Thanks Mel
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