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Re: how many clients per server w/ nessus?
From: "sullo" <sullo () cirt net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:38:41 -0400
We accidentally just had 9 concurrent scans running from various clients. The server is a Netra X1 running Solaris 2.8. All finished properly, if not a bit slower than normal. -Sullo
Ben I have set-up Nessus before with 5 concurrent clients and it seemed to work fine. The scanning took a while but I think this was because of the limited bandwidth I had access to at the time, rather than the power of the Server (Redhat, P3, 128MB RAM). Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: <falcon () cybersecret com> To: <PEN-TEST () securityfocus com> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:37 PM Subject: how many clients per server w/ nessus?Greetings, Has anybody ever setup a central nessus server to be used with multiple, simultaneous clients? Any idea what the safe max per server is in terms of # clients and # scanning threads (ie: target IPs/hosts)? I'm interested in setting up a central server with the ability to scan 50-100 confirmed hosts simultaneous from 5-10 unique clients and am wondering if 1 server can handle this, or if I'll need to setup multiple servers. Thanks much! -ben --------------------------------------- Benjamin Tomhave falcon () cybersecret com http://falcon.cybersecret.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert(SIA)Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities pleasesee:https://alerts.securityfocus.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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- how many clients per server w/ nessus? falcon (Jul 18)
- Re: how many clients per server w/ nessus? Kevin Clarke (Jul 19)
- RE: how many clients per server w/ nessus? Vince Maes (Jul 19)
- Exchange Banner pentest.nospam13 (Jul 21)
- RE: Exchange Banner Leigh Anderson (Jul 22)
- Re: Exchange Banner John Madden (Jul 22)
- Re: Exchange Banner Michael Ray (Jul 22)
- RE: how many clients per server w/ nessus? Vince Maes (Jul 19)
- Re: how many clients per server w/ nessus? Kevin Clarke (Jul 19)
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- Re: how many clients per server w/ nessus? sullo (Jul 19)
- RE: how many clients per server w/ nessus? Chris Eidem (Jul 23)