Nessus Clustering/Load Balancing

[Ron Gula]

At 07:06 PM 8/8/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm looking for some way that I can create a cluster of Nessus machines that
>I can use to scan a network. I would like some way so that as I determine
>the load requirements I can easily add or remove more systems into the
>cluster as needed. The main thing that this is being used for is a both a
>continuous background scan (using a small list of plugins) of the student
>networks at the college I work at and targeted on demand scans as needed. I
>realize I could just create multiple boxes and connect to which ever one is
>not doing anything, but I would prefer to have a more automated method of
>doing this. Does any such thing exist that would allow me to do this?
>

Our Lightning Console does this. We have some customers managing +50
Nessus scanners from one Console. Scanners can also be associated with
a target network. For example, the scanner you deploy behind the firewall
scans that network, whereas your bank of generic scanners can be used
to scan the rest of the network.

Ron Gula, CTO
Tenable Network Security
http://www.tenablesecurity.com