Miscellaneous Information

• FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

  Note: The description is not actively maintained. A relaunch in form of a Wiki is a favoured idea, but it is unclear when this will happen.

• Constitution Summary of OpenVAS constitution according to SPI guidline.

• Trusted NVTs (how to manage NVT signatures)

  This text explains what you need to do to allow your OpenVAS Scanner to execute only signed NVTs with a trust level you decide.

• OpenVAS NVT Feed Services

  This text explains how NVT Feed Services work in general and how to issue a feed service for keeping up-to-date your OpenVAS Scanner with the newest NVTs.

• Howto: Perform local security checks

  This text explains how to run local security checks with OpenVAS. Note: The description is not actively maintained.

• Articles and Studies about OpenVAS

  The OpenVAS team tries to collect references to articles and studies where OpenVAS plays a role.

• Retirement Procedure

  This text describes how a OpenVAS release is retired.

• Security tools that are integrated into OpenVAS

  This page is about security/auditing tools that are integrated into OpenVAS.

  Note: This page is not actively maintained. It therefore might be incomplete.

• Related Tools

  This page is about tools that are in some way related to OpenVAS.

  Note: This page is not actively maintained. It therefore might be incomplete.

• Sources For Security Issues

  Information on possible sources for security related announcements and vulnerabilities (Status: 20070704).

• Creation Process For NVTs

  Note: The process described here is a proposal and not yet implemented.

• Code Metrics

  Note: This was used in an early phase to analyse improvements compared to old code base.