General Nessus Reporting Problem (fwd)

[baumgartner]

Hi all, 

I am currently working on a large project. We have tested about 2.000 
running hosts in different slices over several weeks with Nessus 1.2.7. In 
the end we have merged all the *.nsr-files to one *.nsr-file. Afterwards, we 
have generated several kinds of reports from this *.nsr-file: 

under Linux (Redhat 8.0) with Nessus 1.2.7: 

- html (with pies and graphs)
- html
- ascii (*.txt) 

under Windows (XP) with NessusWX 1.4.2-HF1: 

- html
- ascii (*.txt) 

The results differ because they are not same in the different Reports: 

Nessus:                    html w. pies           html              ascii
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Holes                         3812                3812              3812
Warnings                     10508               12070             12070
Notes                        12070                  -              10508 

NessusWX:                                         html              ascii
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
high severity                                     3812              3812
low severity                                     10508             10508
informational                                    26306             26306 

Could anybody explain to me which result is true? Please consider the 
swapped positions of Warnings and Notes. Any help is appreciated. 

Christoph Baumgartner