Securing Network Infrastructure

How do it…

Perform the following steps:

1. Open Notepad++ or any text editor.
2. In order to create a Windows check for a custom item, we need to begin and end the check with the custom_item tag:

<custom_item></custom_item>

3. Now, we need to identify the required metadata attributes and define them. In this case, we will go with description and info:

<custom_item> description: "Free disk space in system partition#C drive" info: "Powershell command will output the free space available on C drive"</custom_item>

4. Now, we need to define the type of check we need to perform. Nessus executes all the NASL windows commands on PowerShell, and so the type of the check would be AUDIT_POWERSHELL:

<custom_item>type: AUDIT_POWERSHELL description: "Free disk ...