Hello,
I would like some assistance with a 'nice way' to setup automated scanning. I have RTFM and found it not overly useful (or i missed the pertinent bits), and browsed through the last 4 months of mail archives. I have Nessus 3.0.6 setup on a (Vmware) SLES server, with some Windows Clients and also Linux Clients connecting to it and performing scans (manually) and it works great. One of the windows clients has setup the plug-in policies (30 different groupings) and also all the network segments (100+) and has exported them to .nessus files. How can I then make use of these files to automate the scanning from Linux? (I can just run them from the GUI Client and its fine, but I want it automated as well) Is there anyway to have a target file exported from the Windows Client, _and_ a separate plug-in policy file? What I would like to do, is scan one network with some plug-ins at (x)Hours then another network with the same plug-ins at (y)Hours, and so on and so on. But I would also then like to go to specific defined hosts and use different plug-ins with different plug-in credentials, again scheduled. I understand I can do scans from the command line, but my use of them doesnt show me a way to do what I want. Then from the command line you can combine any combination of target and policy file? If not, is there any other suggested methods of achieving the same thing? Once I have that I will just put each command into cron have it output to a specific file and be read by our security admins and our SIEM. Thanks. Michael _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
