Nessus Network Discovery Scan
Max simultaneous hosts per scan.
Nessus network discovery scan. Or if using nessus 6 enable scan network printers under fragile devices in the host discovery section and then re run the scan. Free download scan 16 ips high speed in depth assessments free training and guidance. Specifies the maximum number of checks a nessus scanner will perform against a single host at one time. Nessus is commercial software made to scan for vulnerabilities but the free home version offers plenty of tools to help explore and shore up your home network.
Launch a host discovery scan to see what hosts are on your network and associated information such as ip address fqdn operating systems and open ports if available. Plugins are numerous and wide in their capabilities. If you are scanning over a slow connection you may want to set this to a higher number of seconds. Nessus is trusted by more than 30 000 organizations worldwide as one of the most widely deployed security technologies on the planet and the gold standard for vulnerability assessment.
Max simultaneous checks per host. Nessus performs its scans by utilizing plugins which run against each host on the network in order to identify vulnerabilities. After you have a list of hosts you can choose what hosts you want to target in a specific vulnerability scan. 30 or the nessus scanner advanced setting max hosts whichever is smaller.
Certain tenable provided scanner templates include preconfigured discovery settings. There are a few good reasons to run this type of scan. It also point you to a variety of. Plugins can be thought of as individual pieces of code that nessus uses to conduct individual scan types on targets.
A nessus user recently contacted me about performing a scan that would simply discover hosts on the network. This is a very low impact scan that does not look for vulnerabilities or enumerate ports.