I honesty do not remember all I remember is that it runs on Linux hosts and
does a directory scan of either /opt or maybe it was /var/www.
When I looked at the NVTs in that group they all were looking for older
software then what we were using on Centos 6 so I disabled the entire group.
Louis
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Louis Bohm - Sr. Systems Engineer
Dell TechDirect Certified
> On Apr 26, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Alex Smirnoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Just out of the curiosity, which NVT was that?
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:40:03AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote:
>>
>> I have only once encountered a case where the endpoint even noticed the
>> scan. And that in itself was a total fluke that I was even alerted to it.
>> One of the NVT checks actually caused such a load on the drives that it
>> paused the server for 1 minute. I only found out because some one was
>> giving a demo on one of the hosts being tested at the time and saw the Java
>> web page completly stop. After 2 minutes they were back with no issue, no
>> data loss.
>>
>> Now that I have stripped that NVT check out no one notices the scans at all
>> on the end point. My end point are running a Java front end with a mysql
>> back end and can sometimes hit high loads just on their own processing. But
>> still the scans incur far more network traffic then then anything else.
>>
>
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