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openvasmd(8) System Manager's Manual openvasmd(8)

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

openvasmd OPTIONS

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.

Listen on ADDRESS.
Create admin user USERNAME and exit.
Role for --create-user option.
Delete user USERNAME and exit.
List users and exit.
Create scanner NAME and exit.
Scanner host for --create-scanner, --rebuild and --update. Default is 127.0.0.1.
Scanner port for --create-scanner, --rebuild and --update. Default is 9391.
Type for --create-scanner option. Could be "OpenVAS Scanner" or "OSP Ovaldi".
Scanner CA public key path for --create-scanner.
Scanner public key path for --create-scanner.
Scanner private key path for --create-scanner.
Delete scanner with UUID and exit.
List scanners and exit.
Set the GnuTLS priority string to PRIORITY.
Path to file containing Diffie-Hellman parameters which are needed for DHE-RSA. This file could be generated using openssl or certtool.
Maximum number of bytes permitted in alert email attachments.

0 to use the default, negative to allow any size.

Maximum number of bytes permitted in reports inlined in alert email attachments.

0 to use the default, negative to allow any size.

Maximum number of IPs per target.
Updates the database with information from a running scanner (openvassd) and exits.
Listen on port number NUMBER.
Rebuild the database with information from a running scanner (openvassd) and exits.
Print version.
Print progress messages.
-?, --help
Show help.

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

openvasmd --port 1241

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

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

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)

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

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