1openvasmd(8)                System Manager's Manual               openvasmd(8)
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NAME

6       openvasmd  - Manager daemon of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System
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SYNOPSIS

10       openvasmd OPTIONS
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DESCRIPTION

13       OpenVAS Scanner, openvassd(8), acts as a service and offers a  communi‐
14       cation  protocol for its clients called OTP. The core task of the Open‐
15       VAS Scanner is the actual scan process.
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17       The OpenVAS Manager is a OTP client and adds various  management  func‐
18       tionalities  to  handle and organise scan results. Thus OpenVAS Manager
19       acts as a layer between the OpenVAS Scanner and its  own  clients  (for
20       example  omp(8),  gsad(8) or gsd(8)) which connect via the OMP protocol
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23       A related service is OpenVAS Administrator,  openvasad(8)  which  among
24       other tasks also manages user accounts for OpenVAS.
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OPTIONS

27       -a, --listen=ADDRESS
28              Listen on ADDRESS.
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30       -l, --slisten=ADDRESS
31              Connect to server (openvassd) at address ADDRESS.
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33       -u, --update
34              Updates  the  database  with  information from a running scanner
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37       -p, --port=NUMBER
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41              Rebuild the database with information  from  a  running  scanner
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44       -s, --sport=NUMBER
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47       --version
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50       -v, --verbose
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53       -?, --help
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SIGNALS

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

61       openvasmd --port 1241 --sport 7772
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63       Serve OMP clients on port 1241 and connect to a OTP server on 7772.
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SEE ALSO

66       openvassd(8) openvasad(8) gsad(8) omp(8) gsd(8)
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MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPENVAS PROJECT

69       The canonical places where you will find  more  information  about  the
70       OpenVAS    project   are:   http://www.openvas.org/   (Official   site)
71       http://wald.intevation.org/projects/openvas/ (Development Platform)
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74       The OpenVAS Manager is release under the GNU GPL,  version  2,  or,  at
75       your option, any later version.
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