Ability for bots to take on particular types of scans

[anthonynowak NA]

id like to see the option for bots to take on particular scanning, probably from the command line (such as a command line option)

Idea being, lets say we have web scanning, nessus and nmap. id like to run 3 bots handling only web scanning, one handling nessus (as a client) and the last one or two handling nmap scanning.

Based on system load I could see running more nmap and nessus bots being they arent that intensive. as a client to nessus I dont see them taking on any cycles really. 3 bots on our current system though loads them pretty good.

[Jason Turner]

How important is maintaining data during this feature add? That is, do we need an update script or is it OK to recreate the tables?

[anthonynowak NA]

(Reply via [e-mail]):

Ive taken out the fields I was going to add to the database and put them elsewhere. So table recreation is ok

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[Jason Turner]

See 75e57b8415d2.

I've added a new "scanner_type_tag" field to the scanner configuration files and scan_target database table.

If a scanner_type_tag is set in the configuration file for a scanner, it will only acquire scan_targets that match the tag. If one is not specified, it will match any scan target (tagged or not) that is available for work.

[anthonynowak NA]

(Reply via [e-mail]):

Perfect!

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