I have never had the need or tested an distributed OpenVAS architecture but i 
think that it is possible. If you go to the menu Configuration->Slaves you will 
see that you can add remote slaves. In the Greenbone Manual you can see that 
you can setup an appliance as Sensor which i think it has the whole package but 
only uses the scanner because of the way they configure it but it is only my 
opinion. If i were you i would configure an Master in a machine and then in 
another machine install OpenVAS but only activate the scanner (openvassd) then 
in the Manager i would add this scanner and update the Master and then see if 
the updates appear in the remote scanner.

> No dia 18/08/2016, às 19:35, LeBlanc Benjamin-Hugo (EXT) 
> <[email protected]> escreveu:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> We are seriously considering deploying OpenVAS in our organisation, and we 
> will most certainly opt for a distributed architecture that matches our 
> network segmentation. We understand so far that a Master-Slave configuration 
> involves two instances of OpenVAS, each slave running on its own 
> Manager-Scanner binome. But since each such Manager "has to take care on its 
> own to update the feed and release", while the Scanner synchronizes 
> automatically with its Manager, could we instead use one single Manager, and 
> bypass the Slave Managers to connect directly to multiple scanner components 
> of OpenVAS, defined as additonal scanners in the web interface? I.e., instead 
> of having one OpenVAS, PaloAlto and w3af scanner, running rather many 
> instances of the OpenVAS one from one single Manager? And if so, how would 
> that be handled by the Manager, performance-wise?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Ben LeBlanc
> Nurun Services conseils
> Quebec, Canada
> 
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