Mailing List Archive: Plugins.xml

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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