RE: General Information on Nessus : Required

Hi Ron,

Can you give me some info on how to run multiple scanners for a list of hosts? Do you mean we assign multiple scanners for (say 1000 out of 4000) a number of hosts and another for (say next 1000 out of 4000) a number of hosts.....like this?

Regards,
Sutapa

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Gula
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 4:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: General Information on Nessus : Required

Hello Sutapa,

Nessus can perform different types of audits, and the performance and topology
of your network can effect the scan times. Tenable has some customers that can
scan 4000 hosts in 6-10 hours with one scanner. We also have other customers
that use multiple scanners and cut this down to around an hour. I'm sure the list
will post their thoughts as well and if you scan that archives, you can find
more info.

Nessus does not perform scheduled scans. However, there are a variety of
commercial and free tools to do this. Tenable's Security Center will load
balance scans, manage your credentials and provide role base access to the
results.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

Dey, Sutapa wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I need some information regarding the Nessus tool. Please find my queries as below:
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> 1. What may be the approximate time taken by the Nessus tool to scan a list of hosts (say 4000) in parallel?
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> 2. Is there any auto scheduling option available in Nessus?
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> Please let me know the answers to these questions.
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> Regards,
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> Sutapa
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