Re: Scan despite dead host detection?

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to convince nessus to perform all (or at least most) of the
> tests despite the dead host detection. The test usually involve test
> against a firewalled environment so I know dead host detection is nearly
> impossible to perform.
>
> I have been digging into the knowledgebase and disabled various tests like
> ping_host.nasl (10180) but it still does not test as much as I would like.
>
> Is there a way to perform a full analyses with just nessus?
>
> If not is there a way of running nmap first and feed the output
> automagically to Nessus?

Hi Hugo,

Did you try configuring:
Nmap (NASL wrapper)[file]:File containing grepable results : =
in your nessusrc configuration file?
You can also run nmap and save the output into a file with -oG, parse
that file to contain only IPs and then use that as your targets file.

--
 - Josh

After all I do not like to stay in the office
> untill 21:00 just to start up some test when you have cron jobs.
>
> BTW: The nessus scanner runs headless so it's all done through config
> files and scripts.
>
> Hugo.
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