On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Louis Bohm <lo...@systemgeek.net> wrote:
> I honesty do not remember all I remember is that it runs on Linux hosts > and does a directory scan of either /opt or maybe it was /var/www. > > When I looked at the NVTs in that group they all were looking for older > software then what we were using on Centos 6 so I disabled the entire group. > > Louis > ::::: > Louis Bohm - Sr. Systems Engineer > Dell TechDirect Certified > > > On Apr 26, 2018, at 12:22 PM, Alex Smirnoff <a...@eltex.net> wrote: > > > > Just out of the curiosity, which NVT was that? > > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:40:03AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote: > >> > >> I have only once encountered a case where the endpoint even noticed the > scan. And that in itself was a total fluke that I was even alerted to it. > One of the NVT checks actually caused such a load on the drives that it > paused the server for 1 minute. I only found out because some one was > giving a demo on one of the hosts being tested at the time and saw the Java > web page completly stop. After 2 minutes they were back with no issue, no > data loss. > >> > >> Now that I have stripped that NVT check out no one notices the scans at > all on the end point. My end point are running a Java front end with a > mysql back end and can sometimes hit high loads just on their own > processing. But still the scans incur far more network traffic then then > anything else. > >> > > > > Thanks everyone. This information is helpful. I failed to note that the issue I'm trying to address is slow scanning rate. Jobs taking too long. Regards Peter
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