On 30/10/12 11:29 AM, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > Hello OpenVAS users, > > I'd be very interested to find out how many users of the OpenVAS Transfer > Protocol > (OTP) we still have. > > This is the protocol offered by the OpenVAS Scanner and in modern OpenVAS > releases > the OpenVAS Manager is the only relevant client. > > Please reply on-list (preferred as it might interest the community in general) > or off-list (if you prefer this) to the following questions in case you are > using > OTP: > > * Have you implemented OTP with your own pograming lanuage and tools or > have you used API elements of openvas-libraries/openvas-scanner for this?
Implemented OTP client with own tools. > > * Which of the OTP commands did you implement? On the sending side, CLIENT <|> COMPLETE_LIST <|> CLIENT CLIENT <|> GO ON <|> CLIENT CLIENT <|> PREFERENCES <|> CLIENT <|> PLUGINS_ORDER <|> ------ <|> CLIENT CLIENT <|> ATTACHED_FILE CLIENT <|> LONG_ATTACK <|> > > * Which OTP commands do you really need in the future and which > could you drop? The above list is the minimal list need to collect all scanner information and to have the ability to launch a scan with any arbitrary configuration. > > * Is OTP critical for your activities/processes? Yes. > > * Is OMP an alternative for your OTP use case? > Arguably yes, but preferably no. While technically we could use OMP, there would be zero added benefit to doing so - we would literally add overhead/infrastructure to replace a lean client/scheduling system with one that is at best going to do what we already have in place, at worst will add overhead and possibly not do what we already have. If the protocol was changed, we would likely prefer to leverage the replacement protocol instead of using OMP. > > Your answers will help developers to judge about the future of OTP. > So far it is fully maintained across all stable OpenVAS releases. > But OTP has several drawbacks and design issues and it is desirable > to have a leaner OTP version as well as a new, more advanced, protocol. > > All the best > > Jan > Cheers, Thomas _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
