openvasmd

Manager daemon of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS)

Synopsis

Description

OpenVAS Scanner, openvassd(8), acts as a service and offers a communication protocol for its clients called OTP. The core task of the OpenVAS Scanner is the actual scan process.

The OpenVAS Manager is a OTP client and adds various management functionalities to handle and organise scan results. Thus OpenVAS Manager acts as a layer between the OpenVAS Scanner and its own clients (for example omp(8), gsad(8) or gsd(8)) which connect via the OMP protocol to the OpenVAS Manager.

A related service is OpenVAS Administrator, openvasad(8) which among other tasks also manages user accounts for OpenVAS.

Options

-a, --listen=ADDRESS

Listen on ADDRESS.

-l, --slisten=ADDRESS

Connect to server (openvassd) at address ADDRESS.

-u, --update

Updates the database with information from a running scanner (openvassd) and exits.

-p, --port=NUMBER

Listen on port number NUMBER.

--rebuild

Rebuild the database with information from a running scanner (openvassd) and exits.

-s, --sport=NUMBER

Connect to server (openvassd) on port number NUMBER.

--version

Print version.

-v, --verbose

Print progress messages.

-?, --help

Show help.

SIGNALS

SIGHUP causes openvasmd to rebuild the database with information from the Scanner (openvassd).

EXAMPLES

openvasmd --port 1241 --sport 7772

Serve OMP clients on port 1241 and connect to a OTP server on 7772.

SEE ALSO

openvassd (8) openvasad (8) gsad (8) omp (8) gsd (8)

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OpenVAS PROJECT

The canonical places where you will find more information about the OpenVAS project are: http://www.openvas.org/ (Official site) http://wald.intevation.org/projects/openvas/ (Development Platform)

COPYRIGHT

The OpenVAS Manager is release under the GNU GPL, version 2, or, at your option, any later version.