How we can set nessus to do periodic scan and save report in specific
folder after every scan with specific name and overwrite existing
report?
Nitin:
Use a cron job.
The below instructions assume you have Nessus Server 3.0.4 and
NessusClient installed on a *nix box in the default locations. It will
generate both an NBE file and an HTML report every month at Midnight on
the first Sunday, over-writing the result file and report from the
previous month.
Step 0: create a directory structure similar to the following (just an
example... create it however/wherever you want):
/opt/Nscans/configs - to hold configuration stuff
/opt/Nscans/targets - to hold scan target files
/opt/Nscans/scripts - to hold scripts you write
/opt/Nscans/results - to hold raw scan results (NBE files)
/opt/Nscans/reports - to hold scan reports (e.g., HTML files)
Step 1: create a file (e.g., /opt/Nscans/targets/prod_servers.txt)
containing the targets you want to scan, each separated by a newline;
for example:
192.168.1.2-192.168.1.254
192.168.2.129-192.168.1.254
Myhost.myorg.com
192.168.3.75
Step 2: copy an existing .nessusrc file (usually found somewhere under
$HOME/.nessus) to /opt/Nscans/configs/prod_servers.cfg, tweak it as
desired.
Step 3: Create a nessus user and password using
/opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-adduser (e.g., Nscan_User / N5c4n_U53r)
Step 4: create a script named (for example) prod_servers.sh in
/opt/Nscans/scripts:
#!/bin/sh
NCMD=/usr/local/bin/NessusClient
NHOST=myhost.myorg.com
NPORT=1241
NUSER=Nscan_User
NPASS=N5c4n_U53r
NCONFIG=/opt/Nscans/configs/prod_servers.cfg
NTARGET=/opt/Nscans/targets/prod_servers.txt
NRESULT=/opt/Nscans/results/prod_servers.nbe
NREPORT=/opt/Nscans/reports/prod_servers.html
$NCMD -c $NCONFIG -T nbe -xq $NHOST $NPORT $NUSER $NPASS $NTARGET
$NRESULT
$NCMD -i $NRESULT -o $NREPORT
Step 5: Create a crontab entry similar to the following (this will run
the scan at midnight on the first Sunday of every month):
00 00 * * Sun [`date +\%d` -lt 8] &&
/opt/Nscans/scripts/prod_servers.sh
Note: You will have to do something to keep the copied nessusrc file
up-to-date with current plugins. George Theall's update-nessusrc perl
script is a good choice, and he keeps it current.
John Scherff
Sr. IT Security Analyst
24 Hour Fitness
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[mailto:nessus-bounces@list.nessus.org] On Behalf Of Shingari, Nitin V.
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 7:29 PM
To: nessus@list.nessus.org
Subject: Periodic Scan with nessus?
Hi folks,
How we can set nessus to do periodic scan and save report in specific
folder after every scan with specific name and overwrite existing
report?
Warm Regards
Nitin Shingari
nvshingari@ipolicynetworks.com
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