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angeolivier2003 at yahoo

Dec 22, 2008, 2:52 AM

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update my plugin

hello all

i want to know how i see my plugins are update to my nessus installation, and freqency of update

thanks

jesper.skou.jensen at uni-c

Dec 22, 2008, 4:42 AM

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Re: update my plugin [In reply to]

Kermito le kermit wrote:
>
> hello all
>
> i want to know how i see my plugins are update to my nessus
> installation, and freqency of update

You don't write if you are using Windows or Linux/Unix, so I can only guess!

On my Nessux box I do this

user [at] nessu:~$ cat /var/lib/nessus/plugins/plugin_feed_info.inc

And the first line in that says

PLUGIN_SET = "200812220034";

That tells me that the plugins are from last night.

I update the set every night.

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rgula at tenablesecurity

Dec 22, 2008, 5:59 AM

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Re: update my plugin [In reply to]

Kermito le kermit wrote:
> hello all
>
> i want to know how i see my plugins are update to my nessus installation, and freqency of update
>
>

If you are using Windows, you can set the frequency of the plugin
updates to some number of hours in the 'Nessus Server Configuration'
tool. On Unix, there is a setting in the nessusd.conf file called
auto_update which enables Nessus to obtain plugins automatically.
This is described in the documentation here:

http://www.nessus.org/documentation/nessus_3.2_installation_guide.pdf

If you are using this for business, you should subscribe your
scanner to the Professional Feed and if you are a home user, please
subscribe to the home feed.

As for frequency of plugin updates, Tenable offers multiple RSS feeds
for all of our products here:

http://www.nessus.org/rss/

Choose the 'New Nessus Plugins' RSS feed and when new plugins are
available, you will be able to see this in your RSS reader.

Ron Gula
Tenable Network Security

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