Ben I have set-up Nessus before with 5 concurrent clients and it seemed to work fine. The scanning took a while but I think this was because of the limited bandwidth I had access to at the time, rather than the power of the Server (Redhat, P3, 128MB RAM). Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: <falconat_private> To: <PEN-TESTat_private> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 7:37 PM Subject: how many clients per server w/ nessus? > Greetings, > > Has anybody ever setup a central nessus server to be > used with multiple, simultaneous clients? Any idea > what the safe max per server is in terms of # clients > and # scanning threads (ie: target IPs/hosts)? I'm > interested in setting up a central server with the > ability to scan 50-100 confirmed hosts simultaneous > from 5-10 unique clients and am wondering if 1 server > can handle this, or if I'll need to setup multiple > servers. > > Thanks much! > > -ben > > --------------------------------------- > Benjamin Tomhave > falconat_private > http://falcon.cybersecret.com/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) > Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which > automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: > https://alerts.securityfocus.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus Security Intelligence Alert (SIA) Service. For more information on SecurityFocus' SIA service which automatically alerts you to the latest security vulnerabilities please see: https://alerts.securityfocus.com/
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