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James Kelly wrote:
> Would it be possible to dump out a list of all Nessus plugins showing id
> number in column 1 and description in column 2?

Hi James,

Yes it is possible.

There is a '-p' option on the Nessus command line to dump out a list of plugins
from the remote Nessus scanner such as:

[root@kingghidora bin]# ./nessus -p 192.168.20.207 1241 <nessususer> <nessuspassword>

This dumps out everything about the description, family, name, .etc.

You'd need to do some text manipulation of the data to get it into the format you
are looking for.

Ron Gula, CTO
Tenable Network Security

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I modified a script i use.

------------------BOF-------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
SERVER_IP='127.0.0.1'
SERVER_PORT='1241'
USR_NAME='pepe'
USR_PASS='pepe'
NESSUS_PATH=/opt/nessus
SEND_FILE=/root/test.plugin.log

$NESSUS_PATH/bin/nessus -qp $SERVER_IP $SERVER_PORT $USR_NAME
$USR_PASS > /root/nessus/plugins.txt

for x in $(cat /root/nessus/plugins.txt | awk 'BEGIN { FS ="|" } ;
{print $1}' | sort )
do
grep "$x" /root/nessus/plugins.txt | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "|" } ;
{ print "ID: " $1 " | Name: " $3 }' >> $SEND_FILE
done


less $SEND_FILE

------------------EOF-------------------------------

Regards,

--
Ulises U. Cuñé
Web: http://www.ulises2k.com.ar



On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 14:16, James Kelly <james.kelly@securicon.com> wrote:
> Would it be possible to dump out a list of all Nessus plugins showing id
> number in column 1 and description in column 2?
>
> Jim Kelly
>
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