[Openvas-discuss] openvas-cli 0.1.0

[Vlatko Kosturjak]

Tim Brown wrote:
> On Monday 22 March 2010 14:28:21 Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>> Am 22.03.2010 15:21, schrieb Jan-Oliver Wagner:
>>> One of my goals is to have openvas-cli compile easily on many platforms,
>>> including Windows and Solaris.
>> Hmm, what about using a version of the program written in a script
>> language? When choosing a decent language, we save the compilation
>> issues at all ;-)
> The counter argument of course is that scripting languages /may/ have no place 
> on production systems.  That's not to say however that a version of openvas-
> cli in Perl wouldn't be appreciated, just none of that Ruby/Python tat ;).

Actually, step further would mean to develop API. This is something I
have done for Nessus (Yes, for Perl as well):
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Net::Nessus::XMLRPC
http://nessus-xmlrpc.rubyforge.org/

After having something like that, it's simple to write command line
utility, like this:
http://nessus-xmlrpc.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?CLIExamples

Kost