Re: General Nessus Reporting Problem

[Christoph Baumgartner]

Thanks for the prompt reply. The values 12070 and 10508 are either 'security 
warnings' or 'security notes' (depending on the reports 'html w. pies' or 
'html' and 'ascii'). Is the value 12070 the result of all 'security 
warnings' or all 'security notes'? 

Christoph 

Renaud Deraison writes: 

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:30:34PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 
 

HTML+Pies tries to be smarter than the simple info/warning/hole
categorization and parses the content of each report, searching for the
string 'Risk Factor'. Therefore, the results might be slightly
different, as you're seeing. 

 

				-- Renaud