Re: Newb needs help

razorack-

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:23:42 -0500, bernie@e-mich.com <bernie@e-mich.com> wrote:
> Can anyone point me in thr right direction please.  I would like to be able to
> set up Nessus to run from cron and scan multiple subnets at different times
> with different plugins for each server.

This is quite accomplishable.  What you need to do is create a config
file (.nessusrc) for each scan.  You also will need one file that
contains a list of hosts you want to scan.  In the config file, you
will define all the preferences, scans, and plugins that you want to
use for this attack.  The target file can contain single IPs, ranges
of IPs, CIDR IPs, and i think even hostnames, though I dont use it
that way.  So to scan a bunch of windows hosts:

Config file - windows_scan
target file - windows_hosts

nessus command:

nessus -c windows_scan -q nessusd_host nessusd_port nessus_user
password windows_hosts output.nbe

For help with the config file check http://www.edgeos.com/nessuskb/
they have great info on the config file settings.

HTH

-tl
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