On Nov 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, christopher ashby wrote: > Was just wondering how everyone manages there plug-in subscriptions, > more specifically what plug-ins were updated, added, and or removed > (if applicable). I would like to receive a daily report either > automatically created which would inform me of all the updates that > have been applied to existing plug-ins, and any new ones that have > been downloaded from the repo.
Several years ago I developed a Perl script that you might be interested in. It's not a Tenable product, though. And it requires a bit of setup, although nothing that a reasonably good sysadmin or Perl programmer should have difficulty with. The script is called update-nessus-plugins, and works as a wrapper around the script nessus- update-plugins that's included with Nessus. It offers options for backing up the plugins tarball prior to running an update as well as summarizing changes in the plugins, as context diffs when possible. The script is free and should run on most any sort of *nix system. You will need another of my scripts (describe-nessus-plugin) and to configure plugin updates to operate through cron rather than the Nessus server directly. For more info, look at http://www.tifaware.com/perl/update-nessus-plugins/ . George -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Nessus mailing list [email protected] http://mail.nessus.org/mailman/listinfo/nessus
