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Nexpose Security Console

For security engineers who need to interact with a Rapid7 Nexpose console, the nexpose-security-console gem is a command line utility that manage (e.g. create, list, update, and remove) the following entities: - sites, - scans, - assets, - asset groups, - reports, - vulnerabilities - etc…​

Personal scratch

I need to delete ~ 100 thousands assets from a group asset. The web GUI only allows to delete 500 at a time. Hence, nexpose-security-console was born.

Installation

Simply run the command below

$ gem install nexpose-security-console

Usage

You can get help on available commands.

NAME
    nsc - CLI to interface with Nexpose Security Console

SYNOPSIS
    nsc [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]

VERSION
    0.0.2

GLOBAL OPTIONS
    --help    - Show this message
    --version - Display the program version

COMMANDS
    assets         - Manage assets
    bulk_delete    - Bulk delete assets with unknown OS
    connect, login - Verify connection to the server
    groups         - Manage asset groups
    help           - Shows a list of commands or help for one command
    reports        - Manage reports
    sites          - Manage sites

Configuration

# ~/lab.yaml consists of the following:

config:
   server: 10.10.10.10
   port: 3780
   user: nxuser
   password: password

Development

Checkout the github repository

git clone https://github.com/rhc/nexpose-security-console

Access the source code folder directory.

$ cd nexpose-security-console

Install dependencies

bin/setup

Run the tests

rake test

Experiment with the code under development

run bin/console

Install this gem onto your local machine

bundle exec rake install

Release a new version

gem bump
gem release

Contributing

In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.

If you discover errors or omissions in the source code, documentation, or website content, please don’t hesitate to submit an issue or open a pull request with a fix. New contributors are always welcome!

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

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