AutoNessus

This script communicates with the Nessus API in an attempt to help with automating scans. Depending on the flag issued with the script, you can list all scans, list all policies, start, stop, pause, and resume a scan. It may be helpful to create a cron job/scheduled task for automating the start or pause of scans if the client has a desired testing window.

Please feel free to use and modify this code; it works for our purposes but may not work perfectly for yours. Any suggestions or improvements are highly encouraged.

Dependencies

Requires python version 2.x and “requests” module to be installed. Installation can be found here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/install/

Download

git clone https://github.com/redteamsecurity/AutoNessus.git

Start & Help

python autoNessus.py -h

Examples

List all scans and scan IDs (scan IDs to be used with other flags)

python autoNessus.py -l

Start scan 42

python autoNessus.py -sS 42

Pause scan 42

python autoNessus –pause 42

Source: https://github.com/redteamsecurity/AutoNessus