Re: Scripting Nessus Scan and emailing of output

I'll bite.

Your requirements were a little vague, but this should work fine. Note 
that the target IPs you want to scan should go in /tmp/targets (assuming 
you aren't purging stale /tmp files regularly -- in that case, put it 
somewhere else and fix the TARGETS variable). Obviously you'll also need 
to set all these variables accordingly.

All - if I'm doing something incorrectly please don't hesitate to point 
it out.
-rw

--snip--

#!/bin/bash

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/nessus/bin/nessus
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/nessus/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

# configure as needed
RECIPIENTS="admin@domain.com,dave@blah.com"
SERVER=localhost
PORT=1241
USERNAME=nessus
PASSWORD=nessus
TARGETS=/tmp/targets
REPORT=/tmp/nessus.html.$$

# run the scan - reading targets from $TARGETS and outputting to $REPORT
nessus -q $SERVER $PORT $USERNAME $PASSWORD $TARGETS $REPORT -T html

# punt off the report to recipients
mail -s 'Nessus scan results' $RECIPIENTS < $REPORT

# clean up
rm -f $REPORT




John J. Culkin wrote:
> Hello
>
> Can anyone help me create a script which does a Nessus Scan and then 
> emails the results.
>
> I am hoping to run this script via cron on RHEL 4 and/or RHEL 5
>
> -- John C.

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