From: Kevin Clarke (kclarke@vianetworks.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 10:32:17 EDT
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: <falcon@cybersecret.com>
To: <PEN-TEST@securityfocus.com>
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
> falcon@cybersecret.com
> http://falcon.cybersecret.com/
>
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