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.