On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote:
> If I tell nessus to scan 255 systems but scan them 12 at a time, how
> hard would it be to have nessus send the request to nmap to scan all 12
> of them with a single instance of nmap and then grep the output for the
> correct information?
The first batch would get this request in just about the same moment so
running them all at once through nmap is not an issue.
But some of these hosts run webservers and require other tests so the
remainder of these 12 will be ready much faster. Should we hold of the
testing of those untill all 12 are ready to make sure we can feed another
batch to nmap?
If you win on nmap here you lose valuable time on other means. And wether
or not you are better of in the end remains to be seen.
An interrim solution might be to fire off nmap first with all addresses
and get all the data required at the start and store it untill we can
perform the other tests to the hosts.
to me this sounds like an effort that pays of results. how much effort is
required is not clear to me as I am not a programmer.
I can see there is no simple win-win scenario as some think can becreated
quite easily. But to me this did not sound like a peeing contest.
Hugo.
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