Of course that you have to manually configure what scanner to use for each 
Task. And in terms of performance i don’t know since i never used it 
distributed but it makes sense that it will increase the performance for each 
scan you add.
> No dia 18/08/2016, às 21:36, Fábio Fernandes <[email protected]> 
> escreveu:
> 
> 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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