Gvm-cli usage question (No such file or directory)

Building from Source and Advanced Topics Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP)
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Hi everyone,

I’m willing to migrate my openvas 8 installation to v9, but I have some issues using the gvm-cli tool (which to my understanding is replacing omp, now deprecated.)

With openvas 8, I was doing reports related requests with simple commands like:

omp -h 127.0.0.1 -u admin -w pass -iX ‘<get_tasks task_id="’$my_task_id"/>

With gvm-cli, I would assume the below command would provide the same result:

gvm-cli socket --gmp-username admin --gmp-password pass --xml ‘<get_tasks task_id="$my_task_id"/>’

However the result of this is: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

This sounds like a very stupid thing, but as I’m completely new to gvm-cli and XML I would appreciate some guidances here.

Thanks for your help !

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So indeed the question was stupid as actually gvm-cli couln’t find the socket… So I added --sockpath /var/run/openvasmd.sock and that did the trick.

Now I have another question; with openvas 8 the upon command porvided XML outputs with newlines. With gvm-cli, there is no more newlines in the output which makes parsing much harder.

Is there a way do make output more human readable ?

Thanks

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@tatooin Please create separate threads for each question. This helps to avoid mixing various different topics within one single thread which might cause confusion or even misunderstandings.

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This error actually says, there is no unix domain socket listening at the default path. I suppose your openvasmd isn’t listening on a unix socket at all. Please try gvm-cli tls instead.