Nessus is a popular vulnerability assessment tool that we have already seen in Chapter 1, Introduction to Metasploit and Supporting Tools. Now, there are two alternatives of using Nessus with Metasploit, as follows:
- Perform a Nessus scan on the target system, save the report, and then import it into the Metasploit Framework using the db_import command as discussed earlier in this chapter
- Load, initiate, and trigger a Nessus scan on the target system directly through msfconsole as described in the next section