- I am new to GVM I need to get the Combined pdf reports for all vulnerability scanning as a single pdf report. I did scanning but the result is each report for each targets. How can I automate all vulnerability scanning report as a single pdf report?
Hi Menbere, welcome to the Greenbone community forum.
To do that, you need to combine all your target hosts into a single target and use that target to create a single scan task. The target can accept several IP addresses or hostnames as comma-separated, or an IP range, or CIDR class.
In other words, the reports can only be created for a single scan task so you need to combine all the targets into a single scan task.
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Hi rippledj,
Thank you for the response. I was trying to do that for three targets and it works. is there no problem to work for large networks? I mean the GVM can not crushed for many number of workstations?
I have one other question : when generating the scan report under the Vulnerability Detection Result has display many port results , so how can I remove this results on the report because I do not need these details?
The scans have settings to manage how many hosts and NVTs can be run concurrently, so you can configure your GVM server to manage a large target. The default upper limit is 4095 hosts. You can read why here. So, the max hosts number is quite high.
If you are talking about the reports for a large number of hosts, then you can use a filter to filter the scan task results and then create a filtered report say per IP or groups of IPs.
I suggest starting with a solid review of the manual and scanning a host section.
If you have another question, please create a new thread for it. Thanks.
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Great I do not have that much hosts and good if it works like that. Thank you for your fast response. I will send you a question after working on it with a new thread please reply as today please.
Thank you.
I installed gvm-cli for my windows from greenbone portal. I have installed gvm on my kali Linux virtual machine and using the GSA Web - UI I can start scanning. But I want to scan and generate a report by gvm from the commandline without the web interface. But I couldn’t even authenticate and connect to the gvm.
- gvm-cli – command line interface for controlling GVM without the need for the GSA web-interface
- gvm-script – command line interface for running custom python scripts and extend the automation capabilities of GVM.
Error generated like below
gvm-cli tls --hostname 127.0.0.1 --port 9392 --xml “root</userna
me>kali”
[WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
urgent solution please.
You will probably find that using the python-gvm package is easier to interact with gvmd than manually submitting XML strings via gvm-cli. The documentation pages comes with install instructions and some examples for authenticating and doing basic tasks. Here is a complete list of functions you can call.
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The TLS (and also SSH) connection don’t work out of the box. You need to adjust gvmd to use TLS for the Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP). By default gvmd uses a unix socket connection only.
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Hi rippledj
Thank you for the response. As I am new to GVM I have other questions please.
I have a project to my company and I have three questions so could you provide me your support please?
- Which module of GVM is triggered from the command line for scanning and how?
- Next how to provide the IP-addresses for that module to start scanning and then
- I want to get the XML/pdf output of the scan result.
I am reading and following the steps on the Tech doc of Greenbone but still I couldn’t solve.
I have GVM already installed in my Kali Linux virtual machine, the web-UI works fine at 127.0…1:9392 for the scanning and it generates a pdf as well as xml report. And also I downloaded the gvm-cli installed python-gvm and gvmtools in my windows 11 machine. But I need to do this tasks without using the UI that means automating scanning from the command line. Your urgent response please?