Re: how to edit the html report from nix client

On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 08:40:30AM -0400, Jason Humes wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out how to filter out certain
> alerts/script from the html report which the linux nessus
> client produces.   

Filtering reports is trivial if you're using NBE report
format since it's line-oriented. And even if you're working
with existing reports and have session data, you can use my
own sd2nbe Perl filter, available from:

  http://www.tifaware.com/perl/sd2nbe/

There are several examples on that page for filtering /
sorting reports by different criteria.

> Also, I am looking to
> create a similar type report, but in a slightly different
> format...how is nessus creating this document, and is
> there any way to edit the default report?  

It's part of the code; eg, nessus-core/nessus/html_output.c.
Short of changing that, there's no way to tweak the report.

You might consider working with an alternate output format
if you want to make significant changes; eg, NBE or XML lend
themselves well to programmatic manipulation.

George

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