It is also possible to trigger a rebuild of the manager via SQL commands:
PostgreSQL
psql -q --pset pager=off gvmd -c "DELETE FROM meta where name = 'nvts_feed_version' OR name = 'nvts_check_time';"
SQLite
/usr/bin/sqlite3 /path/to/var/lib/gvm/gvmd/gvmd.db "DELETE FROM meta where name = 'nvts_feed_version' OR name = 'nvts_check_time';"