Kali Nessus Installation and plugins Download Fail solution

Recently, because of scientific research needs, learning Nessus.

Nessus is an excellent vulnerability scanning software, in its V6 home version of the online Update vulnerability plug-in is not successful, the use of offline update, successfully updated the plugin, here will update the method to share.

1, nessus Software installation package download

Http://www.tenable.com/products/nessus/select-your-operating-system

Here, depending on your machine, 64-bit or 32-bit Kali Debain system.

2. Initial installation

3. Use /etc/init.d/nessusd start the command to start after the installation is complete

[Email protected]:~#/ETC/INIT.D/NESSUSD Start

Here, it is not feasible to follow the installation steps of some old and old versions.

You will see that there is no corresponding directory. Therefore, Nessus in the installation, to pay special attention to the crossing network away. The old and new versions are not the same. Not divided into 32-bit and 64-bit. This is the detour that I have walked, hope everybody avoid.

https://docs.tenable.com/nessus/6_6/Content/2_Getting_Started/Offline_Update.htm (official website)

4, register first, and obtain the activation code

Www.nessus.org/products/nessus/nessus-plugins/obtain-an-activation-code

Recommended to use 163,gmail, etc.), the registration is completed will receive the mail, the message has active code.

5. Execute the following command to get the challenge code

6. Submit registration code and Challenge code

https://plugins.nessus.org/offline.php

7, Offline registration

Note that myself CP past, I downloaded the directory is in/root/download/under, to copy to/opt/nessus/etc/nessus

8. Get the latest plugins

/OPT/NESSUS/SBIN/NESSUSCLI Update all-2.0.tar.gz

Reference blog:

http://www.kali.org.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&action=printable&tid=22551

http://blog.csdn.net/ling_xiao007/article/details/50670441

Kali Nessus Installation and plugins Download Fail solution