Re: Old HTML Format Sorting?

"Renaud Deraison (lists)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Hi,

On Jul 7, 2008, at 10:42 PM, Boom Switch wrote:
>
> When I convert a report ilke that from NBE to the old HTML format, I  
> get a random order like:
>
> 192.168.2.1
> 192.168.1.101
> 192.168.3.8
> 192.168.1.100
>
> This gives me trouble with larger scans, as many hosts are grouped  
> logically by OS or application, and it becomes cumbersome to view  
> and test the results when all the hosts are out of order.

This is a bug, we'll get that fixed in a future release.


> Is there any way to work around this so I can 1) still export to the  
> "old" HTML format that has hyperlinks and 2) retains the order in  
> the original NessusClient report (the one you see when you load a  
> saved .nessus file) ?

Try to sort the .nbe file based on the host IPs first, and then pass  
it to the command line client, it might solve your problem.

>
>
> Any chance the filtering features in Nessus 3.2.1 will let me get  
> around this?

Depending on what you intend to achieve, you can indeed use the  
filtering features in the GUI -- once a filter is applied, if you  
export the report to .NBE then only what matches the filter will be  
exported.



				-- Renaud

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