how many clients per server w/ nessus?

From: falcon@cybersecret.com
Date: 07/18/02 

To: PEN-TEST@securityfocus.com
From: falcon@cybersecret.com
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 11:37:44 -0700 (PDT)

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

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Benjamin Tomhave
falcon@cybersecret.com
http://falcon.cybersecret.com/

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