Does 'Boreas ' works in openvas-scanner?

[thorraythorray]

hi, everyone.

I discovered Boreas is a command line tool to scan for alive hosts in repository. However, I haven’t found any traces of usage about Boreas in logs.

Do anyone kown where it used and what is used in oenvas scanner for scanning alive hosts? nmap nasl?

[Martin]

Please see:

Use boreas as alive scanner

Hi @tux, the Boreas is the command line tool to scan for alive hosts. This command line client uses the libgvm_boreas library, part of gvm-libs. The openvas-scanner uses that library as well. You just have to enable it. Otherwise, it uses the classic method via a nasl script. To enable Boreas for the openvas-scanner, you have to set test_alive_hosts_only = yes. From the openvas man page: test_alive_hosts_only If this option is set to 'yes', openvas will scan the target lis…

Nowadays this should be enabled by default, but if you want to make sure, you can double check the corresponding configuration file /etc/openvas/openvas.conf.

[thorraythorray]

Thanks for your relpay.

[jjnicola]

@thorraythorray

However, I haven’t found any traces of usage about Boreas in logs.

you can find openvas.log file the following logs. If you see this logs, it is enabled.

libgvm boreas:MESSAGE:2023-11-23 13h08.48 utc:1058692:86af8ba7-7c42-49ac-8698-1b8def15bdf4: Alive scan 86af8ba7-7c42-49ac-8698-1b8def15bdf4 started: Target has 1 hosts
libgvm boreas:MESSAGE:2023-11-23 13h08.49 utc:1058692:86af8ba7-7c42-49ac-8698-1b8def15bdf4: Alive scan 86af8ba7-7c42-49ac-8698-1b8def15bdf4 finished in 1 seconds: 1 alive hosts of 1.

@Martin

Nowadays this should be enabled by default, but if you want to make sure, you can double check the corresponding configuration file /etc/openvas/openvas.conf.

Alternatively, you can check the openvas configuration with openvas -s .

Best regards.