openvasmd(8)

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.

--create-user=USERNAME
    Create admin user USERNAME and exit.

--role=ROLE
    Role for --create-user option.

--delete-user=USERNAME
    Delete user USERNAME and exit.

--get-users
    List users and exit.

--create-scanner=NAME
    Create scanner NAME and exit.

--scanner-host=HOST
    Scanner host for --create-scanner, --rebuild and --update. Default is 127.0.0.1.

--scanner-port=PORT
    Scanner port for --create-scanner, --rebuild and --update. Default is 9391.

--scanner-type=TYPE
    Type for --create-scanner option. Could be "OpenVAS Scanner" or "OSP Ovaldi".

--scanner-ca-pub=CAPUB
    Scanner CA public key path for --create-scanner.

--scanner-key-pub=KEYPUB
    Scanner public key path for --create-scanner.

--scanner-key-priv=KEYPRIV
    Scanner private key path for --create-scanner.

--delete-scanner=UUID
    Delete scanner with UUID and exit.

--get-scanners
    List scanners and exit.

--gnutls-priorities=PRIORITY
    Set the GnuTLS priority string to PRIORITY.

--dh-params=FILE
    Path to file containing Diffie-Hellman parameters which are needed for DHE-RSA. This file could be generated using openssl or certtool.

--max-email-attachment-size=SIZE
    Maximum number of bytes permitted in alert email attachments. 0 to use the default, negative to allow any size.

--max-email-include-size=SIZE
    Maximum number of bytes permitted in reports inlined in alert email attachments. 0 to use the default, negative to allow any size.

--max-ips-per-target=SIZE
    Maximum number of IPs per target.

-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.

--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 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 released under the GNU GPL, version 2, or, at your option, any later version.