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.
-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.
SIGHUP causes openvasmd to rebuild the database with information from the Scanner (openvassd).
openvasmd --port 1241 --sport 7772
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 release under the GNU GPL, version 2, or, at your option, any later version.