On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:11:06PM -0000, Jose Domingos wrote:
I have a client using Nessus 2.x and i want to upgrade it to Nessus
3.0.1. I would like to know if someone had problems upgrading it.
Since you already have Nessus 2.x installed, upgrading to Nessus 3.x
should be fairly easy as you've already satisfied dependencies.
Essentially, you just use the appropriate package management commands
for your OS / distro, copy over the Nessus users database, copy over
nessus-fetch.rc, edit the new nessusd.conf, and then remove the Nessus
2.x instance.
One potential "gotcha" is that Nessus 3.x does not come with a GUI. If
you want that, you must install the NessusClient software, available as
source from <http://www.nessus.org/download/>.
if the nessus 2.x is running i would like to know if
what Nessus 3 needs is the same that Nessus 2 is using (dependencies,
services, etc) or if theres significant changes.
As far as the distro / OS is concerned, Nessus 3.x is much like Nessus
2.2.x. It does run an additional daemon to automatically update plugins
periodically so if you were doing that before using, say, cron, you
should remove that crontab entry.
Is the there any known
problem in using the nessusd.conf of the v2 in a v3 installation ?
Nessus 3.x comes with a default nessusd.conf. Rather than copy over the
old config file, it would be best to diff them and update the Nessus 3.x
config manually. Make sure you have 'plugins_upload = yes' and set
'admin_user' to an existing Nessus user.
George
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