openvas-SKILL.md

Automate authenticated OpenVAS scans by using the GMP API to orchestrate GVM workflows, manage scan configurations, provision targets, handle credentials, and extract reports. This approach streamlines security assessments and vulnerability management tasks.

Yes, you can manage SSH and SMB credentials for Linux and Windows targets. The automation workflow handles credential creation and target provisioning, allowing credentialed scans across mixed environments to ensure accurate vulnerability assessment results.

The best way to export OpenVAS scan results is by extracting XML or CSV reports via the GMP API. This allows direct integration with ticketing systems and SIEM platforms, providing auditable results for PCI compliance and vulnerability assessments.

Yes, python-gmv supports automating Full and Fast scan configurations. The GMP API orchestrates scan lifecycles, allowing you to launch scans using predefined or custom configurations to target specific vulnerabilities across your virtual and physical environments.

Provision targets by defining hosts, port lists, and alive tests, then associating them with the appropriate credentials. This automated target provisioning via GMP ensures scans are correctly configured to discover vulnerabilities across specified network environments.

You need GMP for vulnerability management when automating end-to-end workflows like credentialed scans and report extraction is required. It programmatically orchestrates GVM task lifecycles, which is more efficient than manual configuration via the Greenbone web interface.