I am evaluating the product Nessus 7 to perform vulnerability scans on the systems in my network.I am able to perform the scans successfully, but I am unable to automate it with a python Nessrest client. The following error is thrown by the nessrest client. Please help me out with this issue. Thank you.
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JSON :
{"uuid": "ab4bacd2-05f6-425c-9d79-3ba3940ad1c24e51e1f403febe40",
"settings": {"text_targets": "targetIp", "file_targets": "",
"folder_id": 82, "description": "Created with REST API", "filters": [],
"launch": "ON_DEMAND", "scanner_id": "1", "emails": "", "filter_type": "",
"name": ""}}
{}
HEADERS :
{'X-Cookie': 'token=1c1c4f11e325eb19440feaaf04706d1265f347d105a06f44',
'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'text/plain'}
URL : https://ipaddress:8834/scans
METHOD : POST
RESPONSE: 412
{
"error": "API is not available"
}
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "nessrest.py", line 1, in <module>
import nessrest
File "C:\Users\ballalc\nessrest.py", line 8, in <module>
scan.scan_add(targets="ipaddress")
File "C:\Users\ballalc\ness6rest.py", line 705, in scan_add
self.scan_uuid = self.res["scan"]["uuid"]
KeyError: 'scan'
Nessus has stopped implicit API Support from 7.x. You should either be using their Free Version "Nessus Home" or licensed to "SecurityCenter or Tenable.io" to use API for automation.
If you were an existing licensee, you can still use API until December, 2018 provided you don't update to Nessus Pro v7 Nessus Update ScreenShot
