gvm-tools: Remote Control of Your Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (GVM)

The Greenbone Vulnerability Management Tools, or gvm-tools in short, are a collection of tools that help with controlling a Greenbone Enterprise Appliance and Greenbone Community Edition installations remotely.

Essentially, the tools aid accessing the communication protocols Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP) and Open Scanner Protocol (OSP).

Note

gvm-tools requires at least Python 3.9.

• Installation of gvm-tools
  • Installing the Latest Stable Release of gvm-tools
    • Using pipx
    • Using pip
    • Using poetry
  • Getting the Source
• Connection Types
  • Using a Unix Domain Socket
  • Using TLS
  • Using SSH
• Provided Tools
  • gvm-cli
  • gvm-script
  • gvm-pyshell
• Configuration
  • Settings
  • Example
• Scripting
  • XML Scripting
  • GVM Scripts
  • Example Scripts
• Glossary