We accidentally just had 9 concurrent scans running from various clients. The server is a Netra X1 running Solaris 2.8. All finished properly, if not a bit slower than normal. -Sullo > 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/ > > > ___________________________________________________ http://www.cirt.net/ Home of Nikto ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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