The Nessus Command-Line Interface (CLI) tool, nessuscli , allows users to interact with Nessus scanners and retrieve scan results. One of the options available in nessuscli is the fetch command, which can be used with the --challenge option to retrieve scan results in a specific format.

Here’s a structured feature specification you could use for documentation, a user guide, or a product enhancement proposal.

The system will output a long string of characters. It will look something like this:

on target Nessus host: