thank you so much for the explaination. might i know what is the minimum
openvas package to run slave server (e.g. openvas-scanner, openvas-cli,
etc)?

thanks and best regards,

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Matthew Mundell <
[email protected]> wrote:

> > is openvas have feature agent scan or decentralized scan and then report
> > back to the server after it scanned?
>
> OpenVAS has decentralized scanning.  This is the Master-slave feature.  To
> use this feature run two servers with the OpenVAS setup, a master and a
> slave.  In GSA on the master create a Slave and a Task.  Select the slave
> when creating the task.  The task will now run on the slave server, but the
> reports will be stored on the master.
>
> Perhaps you'll explain more what you mean by "agent scan".  OpenVAS can do
> Local Security Checks when given credentials.  There OpenVAS logs in and
> uses the system on the machine to help with the scan.
>
> > if have, is there any documentation for do this?
>
> Only what comments exist on the mailing lists, as far as I know.
>
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