On 09/26/07 11:52, Bob Babcock wrote:

> It is, at least on the Windows side, awkward to translate from plugin id
> number to category and description in the GUI.  Is there any tool available
> to read the plugins directory and make a table of script name, id number,
> category, description, etc?

One option might be to use a Perl script I wrote a couple of years ago, 
describe-nessus-plugin. It parses the script description in NASL plugins 
and outputs selected fields such as script id, CVE id, risk factor, etc. 
I've only used it on *nix systems, but I don't see why it wouldn't work 
on Windows too as long as you have the requisite modules (in particular, 
Text::Balanced and Text::Wrap). It's available at:

   http://www.tifaware.com/perl/describe-nessus-plugin/

You could then use describe-nessus-plugin in another script that 
iterates over the NASL plugins in a given directory and produces the 
table with the information you're interested in.

George
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