Re: how many clients per server w/ nessus?

From: sullo (sullo@cirt.net)
Date: 07/19/02 

From: "sullo" <sullo@cirt.net>
To: <PEN-TEST@securityfocus.com>, <falcon@cybersecret.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:38:41 -0400

We accidentally just had 9 concurrent scans running from various clients. The server is a Netra X1 running Solaris 2.8. All finished
properly, if not a bit slower than normal.

-Sullo

> 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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