These custom audit files can be used to audit multiple platforms, as NASL supports key works and attributes for multiple platforms and these values are custom and specific to the configuration of these platforms. This allows the user to easily create audit files and customize them as per their requirements and their baselines to perform the configuration audit and identify these gaps. The following is a list of platforms supported by Nessus to perform a configuration audit:
- Windows:
- Windows 2003 Server
- Windows 2008 Server
- Windows Vista
- Windows 7
- Unix:
- Solaris
- Linux
- FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD
- HP/UX
- AIX
- macOS X
- Other platforms:
- Cisco
- SCADA