On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Rakesh Thakoordyal wrote: > I am using Nessus (Nessus 2.2.10 for Linux) to take advantage of the > Plugin 11936 in order to identify the OS of the systems that are > being scanned. I am running Nessus from the command line and > outputting the results in an XML file. However I find that not all > systems produce OS results for this Plugin. ... > Is there a reason for this?
It could be that none of the other OS fingerprinting plugins were able to identify the result at all. For example, there's a plugin that looks for the name of the OS in the web server's banner, but if there's no web server, no banner, or the banner simply doesn't have anything beyond, say, "Server: Apache", then the results of that particular plugin can't be used in plugin #11936 itself. That said, if you are supplying valid credentials such that Nessus is able to log into the targets, then you should get results, and accurate ones at that. George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
