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Man page of gsd

gsd

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: User
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NAME

gsd - Greenbone Security Desktop for the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS)

SYNOPSIS

gsd [options]

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 Desktop (gsd) is a desktop client based on the Qt framework that connects to the OpenVAS Manager to provide a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management using the OpenVAS Management Protocol (OMP).

OPTIONS

-V, --version: Print version.
-?, --help: Show help.

EXAMPLES

gsd

Start gsd. You will need a running OMP service to connect to, e.g. openvas-manager.

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

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE OPENVAS PROJECT
COPYRIGHT

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Time: 07:34:21 GMT, September 13, 2011

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