Greenbone Security Assistant

The Greenbone Security Assistant is the web interface developed for the Greenbone Security Manager appliances.

It connects to the Greenbone Vulnerability Manager GVM to provide a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management.

Greenbone Security Assistant consists of

GSA - The webpage written in React

and

GSAD - The HTTP server talking to the GVM daemon

Installation

This module can be configured, built and installed with following commands:

cmake .
make install

For detailed installation requirements and instructions, please see the file INSTALL.md.

If you are not familiar or comfortable building from source code, we recommend that you use the Greenbone Community Edition, a prepared virtual machine with a readily available setup. Information regarding the virtual machine is available at https://www.greenbone.net/en/community-edition/.

Usage

In case everything was installed using the defaults, then starting the HTTP daemon of the Greenbone Security Assistant can be done with this simple command:

gsad

The daemon will listen on port 443, making the web interface available in your network at https://<your host>.

If port 443 was not available or the user has no root privileges, gsad tries to serve at port 9392 as a fallback (https://<your host>:9392).

To see all available command line options of gsad, enter this command:

gsad --help

Support

For any question on the usage of gsa please use the Greenbone Community Portal. If you found a problem with the software, please create an issue on GitHub. If you are a Greenbone customer you may alternatively or additionally forward your issue to the Greenbone Support Portal.

Maintainer

This project is maintained by Greenbone Networks GmbH.

Contributing

Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please create a pull request on GitHub. Bigger changes need to be discussed with the development team via the issues section at github first.

License

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0 or later.