Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

Scanning using Nessus from msfconsole

Before we start a new scan using Nessus, it is important to load the Nessus plugin in msfconsole. Once the plugin is loaded, you can connect to your Nessus instance using a pair of credentials, as shown in the next screenshot.

Before loading nessus in msfconsole, make sure that you start the Nessus daemon using the /etc/init.d/nessusd start command.

Once the nessus plugin is loaded, and we are connected to the nessus service, we need to select which policy we will use to scan our target system. This can be performed using the following commands:

msf> nessus_policy_list -msf> nessus_scan_new <Policy_UUID> ...