Hello,
I would like some assistance with a 'nice way' to setup automated scanning. I
have RTFM and found it not overly useful (or i missed the pertinent bits), and
browsed through the last 4 months of mail archives.
I have Nessus 3.0.6 setup on a (Vmware) SLES server, with some Windows Clients
and also Linux Clients connecting to it and performing scans (manually) and it
works great.
One of the windows clients has setup the plug-in policies (30 different
groupings) and also all the network segments (100+) and has exported them to
.nessus files.
How can I then make use of these files to automate the scanning from Linux? (I
can just run them from the GUI Client and its fine, but I want it automated as
well)
Is there anyway to have a target file exported from the Windows Client, _and_ a
separate plug-in policy file?
What I would like to do, is scan one network with some plug-ins at (x)Hours
then another network with the same plug-ins at (y)Hours, and so on and so on.
But I would also then like to go to specific defined hosts and use different
plug-ins with different plug-in credentials, again scheduled.
I understand I can do scans from the command line, but my use of them doesn?t
show me a way to do what I want.
Then from the command line you can combine any combination of target and policy
file?
If not, is there any other suggested methods of achieving the same thing?
Once I have that I will just put each command into cron have it output to a
specific file and be read by our security admins and our SIEM.
Thanks.
Michael
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