Installation guide

Within the Plugins interface, the user has the ability to perform a wide variety of plugin-related functions including

updating active, passive and event plugins, upload custom plugins, view plugin details/source, and search for specific

plugins. Clicking on the “Plugins” tab displays a page similar to the one below:

Update Plugins

Immediately after installing SecurityCenter, plugins are automatically updated on a regular basis. Manually updating

plugins simply involves clicking on the “Update Plugins” button and waiting for the process to complete. Due to the large

quantity of plugins and inconsistency of network speeds, this process can take a long time to complete. Please refer to

Appendix 5 of this document for more information about performing offline plugin updates with SecurityCenter.

The date and time of the last successful plugin update is displayed for each type at the top of the page to the right of the

“Upload Plugins” command button. After a successful download, the plugins are displayed in the plugin table with the date

or number of hours or days of the last successful download in the “Date Downloaded” field.

Upload Plugins

Clicking on “Upload Plugins” opens a dialog box that allows the user to upload one or more active, passive, event, or

custom plugins. Choose “Custom” for any active, passive or event plugins that you have created. All custom plugins must

have unique Plugin ID numbers and have family associations based on existing SecurityCenter families. Choose “Active”,

“Passive”, or “Event” for the appropriate type of Tenable provided signed plugins.

Custom plugin uploads must be a complete “feed”. In order to upload custom plugins, the provided tar.gz

file must include the relevant NASLs and a “custom_feed_info.inc” file comprised of the following two

lines:

PLUGIN_SET = "201202131526";

PLUGIN_FEED = "Custom";

The administrator must manage this file and update the PLUGIN_SET option for each upload. The

PLUGIN_SET format is “YYYYMMDDHHMM”.

For example, running the following command against the “custom_feed_info.inc” file and custom plugins

in a directory will create a new tar and gziped uploadable archive file called

custom_nasl_archive.tar.gz that contains both custom plugins:

# tar -cvzf custom_nasl_archive.tar.gz custom_feed_info.inc *.nasl

It is recommended that the custom_nasl_archive.tar.gz file be updated for each addition and update of

custom NASLs.