gsad

Greenbone Security Assistant for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS)

Synopsis

Description

Together, OpenVAS Scanner (openvassd(8)) and OpenVAS Manager (openvasmd(8)) provide the core functionality of the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS), with OpenVAS Scanner handling the actual scan process and OpenVAS Manager adding various management functionalities to handle and organise scan results.

The Greenbone Security Assistant Daemon (gsad) is a web application that connects to the OpenVAS Manager to provide for a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management.

Options

-f, --foreground

Run in foreground.

--http-only

Serve HTTP only, without SSL.

--listen=ADDRESS

Listen on ADDRESS.

--mlisten=ADDRESS

Manager address.

-p, --port=PORT

Listen on port number PORT.

-m, --mport=PORT

Use manager port number PORT.

-r, --rport=PORT

Redirect HTTP from port number PORT.

-R, --redirect

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS.

-k, --ssl-private-key=FILE

Use FILE as the private key for HTTPS

-c, --ssl-certificate=FILE

Use FILE as the certificate for HTTPS

--do-chroot

Do chroot and drop privileges.

-v, --verbose

Print progress messages.

-V, --version

Print version.

-?, --help

Show help.

EXAMPLES

gsad

Start gsad with the default port configuration and listen on port 443 for HTTPS requests.

SEE ALSO

openvassd (8) openvasad (8) omp (8) openvasmd (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 Greenbone Security Assistant is released under the GNU GPL, version 2, or, at your option, any later version.