Update Example Scripts

[justr00t]

Will the example scripts be updated to work with the new update?

[gschneider-r7]

This is on my perpetual "to do" list. I'll see if I can get them updated soon. I just need to set aside some time for it.

[justr00t]

Great, I'm looking forward to it! Thanks!

[d4t4king]

Updating (at least) one of these, since one allegedly does exactly what I nee for a particular task, but I have a question. Perhaps it's just a style difference?

In the analyze_average_scan_time.rb script, is:
name = engines.find { |eng| eng.id == id }.name
more effective for some reason than, say:
name = Engine.load(nsc, id).name
?

For some reason, the script as it is in the repo doesn't loop through all of my sites, and/or all of my scan engines the way I would expect. The line in question tosses an engine ID of -1, then only displays the average for the local scan engine.

P.S. Assuming I can get things working, and can stay in the same style lane as you guys, I'd be happy to submit a pull request, if it'll save you some time.

[gschneider-r7]

@d4t4king the difference is performing one API request before the loop vs performing an API request on each iteration of the loop (i.e. n engines would be n API requests). It's mostly a performance thing. It may take longer to send many requests than it would to get all of the data in a single request up front. With a few engines it won't be noticeable, but when you have hundreds of engines it would slow down the script.

I suppose it could be made more readable or maybe it just needs a comment to explain it.

[gschneider-r7]

Going forward completed, task-oriented example scripts should be moved over to https://github.com/rapid7/nexpose-resources

(This is mostly a note to myself)