Re: NESSUS

[Phillip G Deneault <deneault () WPI EDU>]

A similar setup in a prepacked form can be found here:
http://vsc-dev.itsp.purdue.edu/

Purdue did away with their ISS scanner in favor of this solution.  It
works very well.  I'm hoping to upgrade to this version this summer.

Phil

Matthew Keller wrote:
> We use an SSI cluster (OpenMosix/Linux) to handle a number of network-
> wide monitoring/crawling/scanning tasks. Nessus itself isn't very
> clusterable as-is, so we run identical Nessus servers on the cluster
> nodes, and a control application we developed using the Perl Net::Nessus
> module handles connecting to the cluster nodes, and subdividing the
> network into smaller pieces for each node to work at. When a node is
> done with its piece, it gets another piece- Kind of like how SETI@Home
> works, if you've used it. Results are placed in a SQL database by the
> control application.
>
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 08:43 -0500, Chad McDonald wrote:
>
> I amy trying to use Nessus to do a baseline vulnerability scan of our
> university network.  To date, I am not having much luck finding the
> right hardware that can support this large of a scan (20+ subnets) in
> a reasonable timeframe.  Before I make a purchase, could those of you
> using Nessus let me know what kind of hardware you have had success
> with?  My current "desktop pc" configuration running on Suse just
> doesn't fit the bill.
>
> Thanks,
> Chad McDonald, CISSP
> Chief Information Security Officer
> Georgia College & State University
> 478.445.4473  Office
> 478.454.8250 Cell
> 478.445.1202 Fax

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