Net-Nessus-XMLRPC This is Perl interface for communication with Nessus scanner over XMLRPC. You can start, stop, pause and resume scan. Watch progress and status of scan, download report, etc. INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install EXAMPLE use Net::Nessus::XMLRPC; # '' is same as https://localhost:8834/ my $n = Net::Nessus::XMLRPC->new ('','user','pass'); die "Cannot login to: ".$n->nurl."\n" unless ($n->logged_in); print "Logged in\n"; my $polid=$n->policy_get_first; print "Using policy ID: $polid "; my $polname=$n->policy_get_name($polid); print "with name: $polname\n"; my $scanid=$n->scan_new($polid,"perl-test","127.0.0.1"); while (not $n->scan_finished($scanid)) { print "$scanid: ".$n->scan_status($scanid)."\n"; sleep 15; } print "$scanid: ".$n->scan_status($scanid)."\n"; my $reportcont=$n->report_file_download($scanid); my $reportfile="report.xml"; open (FILE,">$reportfile") or die "Cannot open file $reportfile: $!"; print FILE $reportcont; close (FILE); NOTICE This CPAN module uses LWP for communicating with Nessus over XMLRPC via https. Therefore, make sure that you have Net::SSL (provided by Crypt::SSLeay): http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Crypt::SSLeay or IO::Socket::SSL: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?IO::Socket::SSL If you think you have login problems, check this first! SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Net::Nessus::XMLRPC You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Net-Nessus-XMLRPC AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Nessus-XMLRPC COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2010 Vlatko Kosturjak This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.