[Openvas-discuss] Summary of ideas for future OpenVAS functionalities

[Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:51:01AM +0200, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:
> - Direct support of Database:
>   OpenVAS Server should optionally write results into a database.
>   It is to be discussed whether this is done additional to sending
>   the results via Nessus Protocol. Also the question is open whether
>   the server manages access to the database directly or whether users
>   submit DB connection and authorization details so that the
>   data are written there.

Just for the record: database support was introduced in CVS (see NESSUS_SQL)
with multiple database backends and a database schema which was discussed in
the Nessus mailing list. It was introduced in 2003, and was more or less
maintained for the 2.0 release. It might need some tinkering to get it to
work with newer releases, though.

Unfortunately it was never merged it with the trunk (despite the promises)
and I lost interest in it. Nobody picked it up afterwards AFAIK, but the work
(and code) done at that time could still be useful to OpenVAS.

Regards

Javier
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