Is openvas manager and gvmd the same?

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Hi,

currently we are in a transition phase of updating the branding towards more public visibility of Greenbone. Greenbone IS THE company behind OpenVAS since years but that wasn’t visible from the outside. Therefore we started to rename existing components which have been already developed and provided by Greenbone to use Greenbone in their names:

  • openvas-{nvt,certdata,scapdata}-sync => greenbone-{nvt,certdata,scapdata}-sync
  • Openvas Management Protocol (OMP) => Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP)
  • Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) => Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM)
  • OpenVAS Manager Daemon (openvasmd) => Greenbone Vulnerability Management Daemon (gvmd)

With the next version of GVM this transition will be completed

Only the first component from the original fork will stay in its name, the OpenVAS Scanner will not be renamed. Besides only renaming the other components the openvas-libraries have changed more drastically. We have removed and rewritten a lot of code so the new gvm-libs have not much in common with the old openvas-libraries and can be considered as a new component.

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