On 01.04.2010 04:53, seph wrote:

> Hi all, I'm just starting to play with openvas, and I'm a bit confused
> by all the different components and how they fit together. These seem
> pretty basic, but I looked through docs and didn't see anything like
> an overview.

I had had the same problem a few weeks ago. This picture
<http://www.greenbone.net/technology/tool_architecture.html> helped a lot.

- client: "old" GTK client, talks directly to the scanner, need to keep
  connection while the scann runs. Is able to talk to the manager, if
  compiled with --with-omp.

- Manager: some kind of extended, head-less client.

- gsa: Web-Client, talks to the manager.

- administrator: I'm still not completely sure what this component does
  exactly.

I suggest using manager and gsa instead of the "old" client. The
interface presented by gsa is much more intuitive.

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