This is the Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) Scanner of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) Solution. It is used for the Greenbone Security Manager appliances and is a full-featured scan engine that executes a continously updated and extended feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs).

For more information, please refer to the OpenVAS website available at http://www.openvas.org/.

Please see the file COPYING for the license information.

Please refer to the instructions provided in the file INSTALL if you want to install and configure openvas-scanner. If you are not familiar or comfortable with building from source code, we recommend that you use a install package or use a prepared virtual machine. Information regarding available binary packages and virtual machines is available from the download area of the OpenVAS website.

Note that you will need the gvm-libs modules to compile openvas-scanner. Further information about these modules is available from the OpenVAS website as well.

If you have any question or suggestions, please feel free to use the mailing list and the IRC chat to contact the GVM developers.

Please use the bug tracker located at https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-scanner/issues to report bugs.