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diff --git a/network/openvas-manager/README b/network/openvas-manager/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..811cae719e47 --- /dev/null +++ b/network/openvas-manager/README @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +OpenVAS stands for Open Vulnerability Assessment System and is a network +security scanner with associated tools like a graphical user front-end. The +core component is a server with a set of network vulnerability tests (NVTs) +to detect security problems in remote systems and applications. + +OpenVAS products are Free Software under GNU GPL and a fork of Nessus. + +To build a complete OpenVAS scanner installation, however, you have to compile +and install the packages in the following sequence: + 1. openvas-libraries + 2. openvas-scanner + 3. openvas-client + +The openvas-client GUI is needed to interact with the OpenVAS scanner, however +there are some new optional modules: + 1. openvas-manager for storing and organizing scans on a central server in a + SQL database + 2. openvas-administrator for User-, Feed- and Settings-Management + 3. greenbone-security-assistant for a web-based Vulnerability Management + +This package provides the OpenVAS manager, it will also install an rc script +to start the manager at system startup, however read carefully the README +provided in the package doc folder as it outlines some important configuration +prerequisites. |