Q: Ideas about the new way of managing scanners?

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Hi,

When adding a new scanner with:

gvmd --create-scanner="TEST OPENVAS Scanner" --scanner-type="OpenVas" ...

Are there any way of removing the “old” Default Openvas scanner, and making the newly added one default?

Or are there any other cool way of doing this, that I have missed?

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Regards Falk

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With each release we are reducing the hard-coded dependencies to OpenVAS, but it is not yet in a plug-and-play state. Eventually we will reach that state but it is not a dominating priority.
The recent step of dropping OTP in favor of OSP was a big one, though.

I never tried it, but I assume you need hard overwriting of the defaults to get another OpenVAS as default scanner. Or you simply let your other OpenVAS serve the file socket that is pre-configured. As long as it can serve the same OSP, gvmd should not notice a difference.

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