made number of subprocesses configurable via config file. Just add subprocs:number to the probe.conf file

Author: konstantinpae

probe.py

@@ -113,7 +113,12 @@ def main():
                     time.sleep(int(config['baseinterval']) / 2)
             gc.collect()
             if str(json_response) != '[]':
-                json_response_chunks = [json_response[i:i + 10] for i in range(0, len(json_response), 10)]
+                if config['subprocs']:
+                    json_response_chunks = [json_response[i:i + int(config['subprocs'])]
+                                            for i in range(0, len(json_response), int(config['subprocs']))]
+                else:
+                    json_response_chunks = [json_response[i:i + 10]
+                                            for i in range(0, len(json_response), 10)]
                 for element in json_response_chunks:
                     for part in element:
                         if config['debug']:

probe_installer.py

@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ def init_script(script_path, user):
                 raw_input("Please provide the path the probe files are located: ")).rstrip().lstrip()
             probe_cleanmem = "%s" % str(
                 raw_input("Do you want the mini probe flushing buffered and cached memory [y/N]: ")).rstrip().lstrip()
+            probe_conf['subprocs'] = "%s" % str(
+                raw_input("How much subprocesses should be spawned for scanning [10]: ")).rstrip().lstrip()
             probe_conf['announced'] = "0"
             probe_conf['protocol'] = "1"
             probe_conf['debug'] = ""
@@ -142,6 +144,8 @@ def init_script(script_path, user):
                 probe_conf['port'] = "443"
             if not probe_conf['baseinterval']:
                 probe_conf['baseinterval'] = "443"
+            if not probe_conf['subprocs']:
+                probe_conf['subprocs'] = "10"
             if not (probe_conf['gid'] or probe_conf['server']):
                 print "No values for GID or CORE SERVER given. Script will now exit"
                 sys.exit()