[Posted to nessus list and CC'd to John in case he's not still a
subscriber.]
In December 2006, John Scherff wrote:
> > Starting last month, Nessus began crashing our Citrix Metaframe farm
> > (approximately 60 servers).
[...]
> But I think Renaud is going to end up being correct (as usual) about the
> cause. After some investigation, I found that 'thorough tests' was
> turned on the month before the problems started occurring.
Hi, John. I didn't see a followup to the list confirming whether "Thorough
tests" was the culprit in your Citrix server crashes. We're currently using
Nessus to scan some hosts at my company and I was considering turning on
"Thorough" because for several of the https servers we get:
The remote web server is very slow - it took 90 seconds to execute the
plugin no404.nasl (it usually only takes a few seconds).
In order to keep the scan total time to a reasonable amount, the remote
web server has not been tested.
If you want to test the remote server, either fix it to have it reply to
Nessus's requests in a reasonable amount of time, or set the global
option 'Thorough tests' to 'yes'
Nessus ID : 10386
but since some of them are running Citrix, I'm wary of turning on "Thorough"
if it's likely to DoS the servers.
--
Dan Harkless
http://harkless.org/dan/
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