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Man page of openvasmd

openvasmd

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
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NAME

openvasmd - Manager daemon of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS)

SYNOPSIS

openvasmd OPTIONS

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.

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)