Re: command line Nessus on Windows

On 08/17/07 10:50, Mel Popple wrote:

> Is there a comprehensive list of all the options and switches that are 
> available when scripting the latest version of Nessus using the Windows 
> Command line tools?

Several of the tools will display basic usage information if you invoke 
them from a command prompt with just "/h" or "-h". This is true of both 
'nasl' which is used to launch a single plugin or 'NessusCmd', which 
launches a scan policy.

> I'd also like to send the results files from different servers to 
> separate folders.

While neither supports this outright, you *should* be able to do this in 
your script if you move / rename the directory in which results are 
written after each scan. I haven't tried it, though.

> And finally is there a way to download the updates from the site, 
> transfer them to another workstation on USB stick and then import them 
> using the UpdateCmd cli tool? I'm presuming this will be another switch 
> to use with the command.

Yes, it's described in the Nessus Installation Guide 
(http://www.nessus.org/documentation/nessus_3.0_installation_guide.pdf), 
starting on page 39. [You'll use build.exe rather than updatecmd.exe.]


George
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