Nessusbeat

Nessusbeat provides a Beat that monitors a local Nessus installation's reports directory and exports, parses, and outputs scan results to supported Beat outputs.

Getting Started with Nessusbeat

Requirements

Golang 1.7

Configuration

nessusbeat:
  report_path: /opt/nessus/var/nessus/users/admin/reports
  #cacert_path:
  #api_url:
  #api_username:
  #api_password:

Build

To build the binary for Nessusbeat run the command below. This will generate a binary in the same directory with the name nessusbeat.

make

Run

To run Nessusbeat with debugging output enabled, run:

./nessusbeat -c nessusbeat.yml -e -d "*"

To run on startup, see the init-scripts folder for example configuration files for each init system.

Roadmap

Add option to poll remote Nessus and SecurityCenter
Add ability to filter scans
Support authentication via API key and secret