About OpenVAS Administrator
===========================

This is the administrator module for the Open Vulnerability Assessment
System (OpenVAS). This module can for example manage OpenVAS users
and the Feed service for a OpenVAS installation. The administator
can be used as a command line utility as well as a service using the
XML-based and SSL-secured OpenVAS Adminstration Protocol (OAP).

For more information, please refer to the OpenVAS website available at
http://www.openvas.org/.

OpenVAS Administrator is licensed under GNU General Public License Version 2 or
any later version.  Please see file COPYING for details.

All parts of OpenVAS Administrator except some auxiliary build tools
are Copyright (C) by Greenbone Networks GmbH (see http://www.greenbone.net).

Please refer to the file INSTALL if you want to install openvas-administrator.


Running openvas-administrator
-----------------------------

Once you have successfully compiled and installed openvas-administrator,
you should write a password policy file /etc/openvas/pwpolicy.conf.  A
sample file is provided in the doc directory (pwpolicy.conf).  If a
password policy is not required, an empty file does exactly this.

Once you did this you can start the application with the following command:

$ openvasad

Please use the following command to learn more about
openvas-administrator:

$ openvasad --help


If you encounter problems, the output of the command "openvasad --version" may
contain useful information. Please have this output ready when contacting the
OpenVAS developers through the OpenVAS mailing list or the online chat or
submitting bug reports at http://bugs.openvas.org/ as it may help to pinpoint
the source of your issue.
