Hi, first of all: kudos to the developer(s) of NessusWX: it provides a really nice interface to Nessus from Windows machines.
NessusWX is just great as far as the GUI is concerned (my only wish there: a search facility for searching the script descriptions right from the plugin-selection dialogue), but its batch capabilities still are somewhat underdeveloped. This is a shame, because it would be really great if Nessus could be called from other programs also on Windows. And, I would imagine, adding some more batch capabilitites should not be too much work (definitely a lot less than, say, making outputs in .doc-format). Here is a list of "wishes" for further NessusWX releases which I would like to put to the consideration of the NessusWX developer(s): - batch capability to specify output format and file of scan results (csv, sql-file, etc) That should be easy to do and would be very useful, because one could access the results without the need to start NessusWX and click oneself through to the output generation. - batch capability to import file of target hosts This would be very useful, because the targets probably change more often than the plugin-list does -- otherwise, one has to open NessusWX whenenver targets are to change - batch capability to import session description in some ASCII-format (probably .nessusrc-file) This would be good for even more automation: one might like to build sessions automatically from some program other than NessusWX As I said above, NessusWX is already a very nice tool; however, it seems that a relatively small effort would make it able to make into a great tool also for those who want/need a batch-interface to Nessus on Windows. Regards, Bernd PS: A last thought: is there any possibility to provide an access to the relevant nessus logs (the nessusd.messages file on the server) on the windows client? I find myself peeking regularly at the log-file when a scan is hanging somewhere to find out what is going on, but that is only possible because I have root-privileges on the machine that runs the nessus demon. ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: general discussions about Nessus. * To unsubscribe, send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe nessus" in the body.
