{"id":10456,"date":"2017-08-22T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=10456"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T08:18:58","slug":"set-openvas-to-only-scan-hosts-that-reply-to-pings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=10456","title":{"rendered":"Set OpenVAS to only scan hosts that reply to PINGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-11445\" data-series-id=\"412\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=a-windows-sysadmin-installs-and-uses-openvas\">A Windows SysAdmin installs and uses OpenVAS<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>In my environment all of our network connected devices are configured to respond to PINGs; this mainly comes about from using PRTG Network Monitor to confirm that devices and services are up even in the most simple of fashions. The same also applies to client PCs which through Group Policy are configured to reply to PING. Thus to save OpenVAS some work while doing it&#8217;s scans I&#8217;ve got a custom scan configured (which will be used in later blog posts) that will only scan hosts which reply to PING.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the screenshot sequence below to see how to configure such a scan.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-11445 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"412\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?series=a-windows-sysadmin-installs-and-uses-openvas\">A Windows SysAdmin installs and uses OpenVAS<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>In my environment all of our network connected devices are configured to respond to PINGs; this mainly comes about from using PRTG Network Monitor to confirm that devices and services are up even in the most simple of fashions. The same also applies to client PCs which through Group Policy are configured to reply to PING. Thus to save OpenVAS&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/?p=10456\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[410,426],"series":[412],"class_list":["post-10456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","category-software","tag-openvas","tag-ping","series-a-windows-sysadmin-installs-and-uses-openvas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10457,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10456\/revisions\/10457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10456"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myworldofit.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=10456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}