[Openvas-devel] Network Inventory via OpenVAS

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009 09:23:58 Christian Eric EDJENGUELE wrote:
> I think it would be easier and more efficient to do an aggregation in the
> client side by implementing some Fingerprint plugins NMAP works well but
> sometimes unreliable...

Currently the client gets only plain text, so we need a format to parse
inventory information.

I try to not invent a new format for this. Are there good network inventory
formats already out there?
 
> I have experience in low-level OS fingerprint techniques, it should be
> interesting to combine nmap result with some plugins to make a very
> reliable OpenVAS network discovery module.

A combination sounds attractive. But how to accomplish this best?

Best

	Jan

-- 
Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner | ++49-541-335 08 30  |  http://www.intevation.de/
Intevation GmbH, Neuer Graben 17, 49074 Osnabrück | AG Osnabrück, HR B 18998
Geschäftsführer: Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner