About Greenbone Vulnerability Manager

The Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is the central management service between security scanners and the user clients.

It manages the storage of any vulnerability management configurations and of the scan results. Access to data, control commands and workflows is offered via the XML-based Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP). The primary scanner OpenVAS Scanner is controlled directly via protocol OTP while any other remote scanner is coupled with the Open Scanner Protocol (OSP).

Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or any later version. Please see file COPYING for details.

All parts of Greenbone Vulnerability Manager are Copyright (C) by Greenbone Networks GmbH (see http://www.greenbone.net).

Howto use

Starting Greenbone Vulnerability Manager:

In case everything was installed using the defaults, then starting the manager daemon can be done with this simple command:

    gvmd

To see all available command line options of gvmd enter this command:

    gvmd --help