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Re: Scan Is Causing a Reboot

Subject: Re: Scan Is Causing a Reboot
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:10:24 -0500
On 11/26/07 11:28, Bilal Nasrallah wrote:

When I run the Nessus scan on a network device we're currently trialing, 
the device gets rebooted. However, no vulnerability was detected. We 
turned off all the supported services except HTTPS, which we need to 
access the box, but yet the reboot wouldn't stop.

We're running version 2.2.9.  Is there a mechanism to find out what is 
triggering the device to reboot?

I assume you're talking about from the Nessus side and that you've 
already tried monitoring the device's console / logs when the problem 
occurs...

Steven Adair already talked about narrowing down the plugins that you 
enable, but you might also take a packet capture of a scan, find when 
the device stops responding because of the reboot, and then try to 
figure out which plugins were generating the packets shortly before that.


George
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