Re: Scheduled Scans

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Martin Macleod Brown wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I am currently running Nessus 3.01 with NessusWX 1.4.5d. I have created 5
> separate sessions scanning 470 public access PC's with different plugins
> depending on image/set-up. Having browsed through the mailing list  and
> current pdf's I am getting a bit confused as to the best way to set up
> scheduled scans, I am no Linux expert, and am unsure about best practice for
> scheduling scans to run overnight, I currently come in early to run the
> scans before the students arrive.
>
> Is there a step by step idiots guide to scheduling scans to run overnight
> anywhere? If someone could post an example of the command set they have used
> that I could modify for our network, or an outline of the process?
>
> I would prefer to do it via XP as Im a Windows boy (sorry!), but if there is
> a step by step for Linux (it is on an FC4 box) I will give it a go and write

On a linux box you could use crontab as follows to run a scan everyday at 
midnight:

1. On the FC4 box run: crontab -e
2. type:
0 0 * * * /opt/nessus/bin/nessus -c YourNessusrcFile -T YourOutputFormat -q 
localhost 1241 Username Password TargetsFile ResultsFile

run man nessus and man crontab for more details.

--
 - Josh




> the process up myself for others.
>
>
>
> Many Thanks
>
>
>
> Martin
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