The call home feature is for patches to anything on the vmware
appliance. Nothing specifically for nessus or openvas.

On 6/29/09, Felix Wolfsteller <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday 25 June 2009 01:22:03 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:11:27PM +0100, Tim Mehmet wrote:
>> > I'm not planning to take these scripts any further, though I am
>> > thinking
>> > of doing something with MySQL, something a bit more powerful than
>> > static
>> > files!.
>>
>> A long time ago (2005!) I coorinated the development of a Nessus a MySQL
>> /
>> PostgreSQL integration package which included:
>>
>> - a database schema for all information from scans
>> - a patch for Nessus (server) to update a MySQL / PostgreSQL database
>>   throughout the scan
>> - scripts to parse the reports so that they could be introduced in an SQL
>>   database.
>>
>> All this was included in Nessus' CVS NESSUS_SQL branch, if this is of
>> interest for OpenVAS I can forward the patches to the list.
>
> I do not know the state of nessus as of 2005 but I guess that OpenVAS is
> heading in a different direction than what nessus was headed to back than.
>
> However I think these patches could be of good value, so please keep them
> hot.
>
> Do you have any document describing what should have been done?
>
> -- Felix
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