OTP and Scanner

[Rene Behring]

Hey,

how exactly does the scanner know which NVTs should be started? Is the manager looking into the scan config and the KB and tell the scanner via OTP what to scan, or is the scanner looking for itself?
Is it possible to control the scanner manual via OTP?

Thanks,
Rene

[Matthew Mundell]

Post by Rene Behring
how exactly does the scanner know which NVTs should be started? Is the manager looking into the scan config and the KB and tell the scanner via OTP what to scan, or is the scanner looking for itself?

Yes, the first one. Manager gets the list of NVTs from the config (in the
db) and sends the list to the Scanner using OTP.

Post by Rene Behring
Is it possible to control the scanner manual via OTP?

Yes. This is what Manager does. But OTP may change at any time. The idea
is to use OMP.

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