Hello, I would like to propose a feature for OpenVAS. I don't know if this is the correct list, or if due to the subject of the feature it would be better to use openvas-plugins. Or maybe none of them, and a separate list should be used. If so, please tell me where should I address this proposal. If the functionality is already in OpenVAS, I apologize. I haven't seen it, but I might have missed it.
I think it would be useful if the scaner could restart automatically upon updating the plugins. If someone has the scanner running and the openvas-nvt-sync is run as a cron job, the openvas-scanner should be restarted to use the new plugins (as far as I know). What I would like to propose is to have openvas-nvt-sync notify the openvas-scanner daemon using a signal that there are new plugin updates (ideally, only if it has downloaded new plugins). Upon receiving this signal, openvas-scanner would set a "flag" internally to indicate that there are new plugins and it should be restarted. When all running scans are finished, or no scans are programmed in the next few minutes (for example), the daemon would restart itself, in order to incorporate the new plugins. Conceptually, I think it should not be very hard to implement this feature, but maybe I'm not seeing all the complexity or implications this might have. Do you think it would be useful? Are there situations where people would not want this feature enabled? If so, maybe it could be switched on or off in openvassd.conf Best Regards, Jonás Andradas.
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