[Openvas-discuss] Openvas-client as a nessus client

Matthew Mundell matthew.mundell at greenbone.net
Mon Oct 18 23:45:41 CEST 2010


> But if I was writing or adapting an NTP based java client surely I could
> code it in such a way that it could switch between NTP and OTP... would this
> be enough for the client to work with Nessus and OpenVAS???

It would.  OTP is mostly documented in openvas-compendium, and there's also
the openvas-manager and openvas-client code for reference.

It may make more sense to use OMP, even in this client.  Or to write a new
lightweight client specifically for OpenVAS, that uses OMP.


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