Re: [Plugins-writers] KB item name and value

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deraison@private

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:06:15PM -0500, Lei Li wrote:
> Hi,
>    get_kb_item() and get_kb_list can be used to retrieve the value of KB
> items. But how to get both the KB item name and value? What I want to do is
> writing a nasl to query the KB and get a list of all the open ports. I use 
>      get_kb_list("Ports/*")
> But only the value of the kb items are returned, i.e. I only got a list of
> '1's. Alternatively, I can write a for loop to query every port, but is
> there a more efficient way to do this?

The ports are stored as Ports/<proto>/<number> = TRUE.

So you want to do :

ports = get_kb_list("Ports/tcp/*");
foreach port ( keys(ports) )
{
 # Remove the string "Ports/tcp/" and convert the remaining
 # part to an int
 port = int(port - "Ports/tcp/");

 do_stuff(port:port);
}

				-- Renaud
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