nessus_rest

Communicate with Nessus Scanner (version 6+) over REST/JSON interface

Usage

require 'nessus_rest'

n=NessusREST::Client.new ({
	:url=>'https://localhost:8834', 
	:username=>'user',
	:password=> 'password' })
qs=n.scan_quick_template('basic','name-of-scan','localhost')
scanid=qs['scan']['id']
n.scan_wait4finish(scanid)
n.report_download_file(scanid,'csv','myscanreport.csv')

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nessus_rest'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nessus_rest

Requirements

Requirements are quite standard Ruby libraries for HTTPS and JSON parsing:

require 'uri'
require 'net/https'
require 'json'

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request

Todo

• Provide more examples

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2016 Vlatko Kosturjak. See LICENSE.txt for further details.

Credits

Vlatko Kosturjak made initial Nessus XMLRPC library. Averagesecurityguy made initial JSON REST patches. Vlatko did bugfixes, gemification and few features.