Net-Nessus-XMLRPC
This is Perl interface for communication with Nessus scanner over XMLRPC.
You can start, stop, pause and resume scan. Watch progress and status of
scan, download report, etc.
INSTALLATION
To install this module, run the following commands:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
EXAMPLE
use Net::Nessus::XMLRPC;
# '' is same as
https://localhost:8834/
my $n = Net::Nessus::XMLRPC->new ('','user','pass');
die "Cannot login to: ".$n->nurl."\n" unless ($n->logged_in);
print "Logged in\n";
my $polid=$n->policy_get_first;
print "Using policy ID: $polid ";
my $polname=$n->policy_get_name($polid);
print "with name: $polname\n";
my $scanid=$n->scan_new($polid,"perl-test","127.0.0.1");
while (not $n->scan_finished($scanid)) {
print "$scanid: ".$n->scan_status($scanid)."\n";
sleep 15;
}
print "$scanid: ".$n->scan_status($scanid)."\n";
my $reportcont=$n->report_file_download($scanid);
my $reportfile="report.xml";
open (FILE,">$reportfile") or die "Cannot open file $reportfile: $!";
print FILE $reportcont;
close (FILE);
NOTICE
This CPAN module uses LWP for communicating with Nessus over XMLRPC via https.
Therefore, make sure that you have Net::SSL (provided by Crypt::SSLeay):
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Crypt::SSLeay
or IO::Socket::SSL:
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?IO::Socket::SSL
If you think you have login problems, check this first!
SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION
After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.
perldoc Net::Nessus::XMLRPC
You can also look for information at:
RT, CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Net-Nessus-XMLRPC
AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2010 Vlatko Kosturjak
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
