How to detect feed status using api

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1

So. what is correct way to detect if feed is updated and synced after greenbone-feed sync.

Currently using this and not sure if it’s is correct or not.

#!/bin/bash

source ./config

greenbone-feed-sync --type all

while true; do
FEED_STATUS=$(gvm-cli --gmp-username $USERNAME --gmp-password $PASSWORD socket --xml “<get_feeds/>”)
if echo “$FEED_STATUS” | grep -q “status_text="OK"”; then
echo “Feed is synced!”
break
else
echo “Feed is not synced yet. Waiting…”
sleep 60
fi
done

Eero

2

I’m not sure what you mean by right way. You could use the @status or @status_text attributes from the XML response according to the docs. There are many code that can accomplish this using bash or python-gvm.

There is also a prepared Python script in gvm-tools for this type of task.

3

Well. in working way, since while feed is syncing, I cannot create targets with tasks. maybe this works.

#!/bin/bash

source ./config

greenbone-feed-sync --type all

while true; do
    FEED_STATUS=$(gvm-cli --gmp-username $USERNAME --gmp-password $PASSWORD socket --xml "<get_feeds/>")
    if echo "$FEED_STATUS" | grep -q -i 'currently_syncing'; then
        echo "Feed is not synced yet. Waiting..."
        sleep 60
    else
        echo "Feed is synced!"
        break
    fi
done