Hello Jan,

*** Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 24 August 2009 13:34:45 Michael Meyer wrote:
> > *** Jan-Oliver Wagner <[email protected]> wrote:
 
> > I would prefer the use of 'report_verbosity' for such NVTs. So the
> > user can then make the decision himself whether he wants to see such
> > Informations or not. Im using 'report_verbosity' in all of my "Service
> > Detection' NVTs. If 'report_verbosity' is set to 'Quiet' these NVTs
> > will not report about found Software. Only security related stuff is
> > reported in this case.
> 
> I don't think the "report_verbosity" feature is the way to go.
> The drawback of this concept is that you only have one flag
> for all NVTs. If you like to have details from NVT A, but only rough
> information from NVT B, this might not work in some cases.

Hmm...do we realy need more options than 'report' and 'not report'?
Which are necessary too? Maybe i missed something...

> I guess that the Nessus developers introduced "report_verbosity"
> to circumvent the lack of a log and debug level.
> But OpenVAS has a log and debug level.

Who reads logs? IMHO, most people will only see what the Client shows.

> > I dont't like to hide informations collected by OpenVAS unless the
> > user has configured to hide them.
> 
> Agreed. But we need a approach that can work more fine-grained.
> It is IMHO better to get down the collection of OS to log and
> have other NVTs take care of systematic reporting about OS
> from the given KB entries.
> This way we serve both needs, information on OS for other
> NVTs  and verbosity.

Again: Who reads logfiles? ;-)

Micha
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