Re: Plugins.xml

Renaud Deraison <[email protected]> Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:32:49 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.nessus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Larry,

You can not create this file on Linux and should not rely on it for  
Windows as it is likely to go away in the future.

Use 'nessus -qSp localhost 1241 <login> <password>' if you want parsed  
plugins (remove the 'S' to get some csv-ish output).
Alternatively, you can run nasl -VV on each plugin and parse the  
output that way.


					-- Renaud

On Oct 29, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Larry Petty wrote:

> I've asked this in the past, but still have not found an answer. Can  
> someone from the Nessus team please respond?
>
> I know the Windows version of Nessus has a plugins.xml file. Is  
> there a way to create this file on the Linux versions? I need this  
> file to update our in house reporting tool. In the past I could just  
> use a windows install to get the file, but with the recent licensing  
> changes I can no longer do this without rolling my license each time  
> I do an update. Another option was using the older Nessus client to  
> generate a .xml report. This report contained all the plugins.  
> However, the new .nessus format does not.
>
> So how can I generate a plugins.xml on my linux install of Nessus?
>
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