Does 'Boreas ' works in openvas-scanner?

[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.