On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:36:51AM -0600, Simons, Rick wrote:

> Can someone with more knowledge of what can possibly be written to .messages
> advise if the following are accurate, 
...
> hosts successfully scanned for at least 1 vuln/service:
> egrep -c 'Finished' file

This just means that Nessus has finished with this host.  It doesn't
imply anything about whether it had any services, vulnerable or
otherwise, or was even up. 

> hosts that were scanned, but found dead:
> egrep -c 'dead' file

Expand that pattern; eg, " is dead".  You wouldn't necessarily want to
count something like "deadhead.domain.com" or a future plugin with
"dead" in its name, would you?

George
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