Editing Commercial NESSUS Update at Beetel Gurgaon


[[category:Tetra Clients]]

==Nessus Offline Update ==

 <nowiki># mv /opt/nessus/etc/nessus/nessus-fetch.rc /opt/nessus/etc/nessus/nessus-fetch.rc.bk</nowiki>

 <nowiki># /sbin/service nessusd stop</nowiki>
 <nowiki>#cd /opt/nessus/sbin</nowiki>
 <nowiki>#./nessus-fix --reset&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [provide ooption 'Y']</nowiki>

 Now run # /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch --challenge 

This will produce a string called"challenge" that looks like the following:

 569ccd9ac72ab3a62a3115a945ef8e710c0d73b8

Next, go to '''https://plugins.nessus.org/offline.php''' and copy and paste the"challenge" string as well as the Activation Code that you received previously intothe appropriate text boxes.

This will produce a custom URL that can be used to download the latest Nessus pluginfeed '''[[(all-2.0.tar.gz)]]''' along with a link to the '''[[nessus-fetch.rc]]''' file at the bottom ofthe screen.

Note: Save this URL because you will use it every time you update your plugins, asdecribed in the next section.

Copy the nessus-fetch.rc file to the host running Nessus in the following directory:

/opt/nessus/etc/nessus/

 <nowiki>#cd /opt/nessus/etc/nessus/</nowiki>

 <nowiki>#nessus-fetch.exe --register-offline nessus-fetch.rc</nowiki>

Obtain and Install Up-to-date PluginsPerform this step each time you perform an offline update of your plugins.To obtain the newest plugins, go to the URL that was provided in the previous step,download the file named "all-2.0.tar.gz" and save it in the directory

/opt/nessus/sbin/. To install the plugins, perform the following command:

Linux

 <nowiki># /opt/nessus/sbin/nessus-update-plugins all-2.0.tar.gz</nowiki>

<nowiki>#Once the plugins are installed please rebuild plugins database</nowiki>

 <nowiki>#/opt/nessus/sbin/nessusd -R 

(to rebuild the database)</nowiki>

 <nowiki>#/sbin/service nessusd start</nowiki>