Re: Nessus 3 logging..

["George A. Theall" <theall@tenablesecurity.com>]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:40:16AM -0600, Paul Hanson wrote:

> Does nessus 3.0 allow for logging of results directly into a MySql 
> database?
No.

> I now various clients support this,  but does the server or nesssusd
> support this? It would definitely be nice to fire off cron jobs for
> scheduled tests and then mine a mysql database for reports.
NessusWX can output results to a MySQL database, but that runs on 
Windows and its support of commandline usage is lacking.
The Unix clients can generate SQL statements for the list of plugins on
a server as well as preferences but not results to a database.

You could look into saving results from the Unix commandline client as, 
say, NBE, and then using that to populate your database. Inprotect, 
http://www.inprotect.com/, is an open-source solution that reportedly 
uses this approach.
Or you could go with Security Center, 
http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/sc.shtml, a commercial product 
from Tenable.
George
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