python-gvm 1.0.0b1

Library to communicate with remote servers over GMP or OSP

Greenbone Vulnerability Management Python Library

The Greenbone Vulnerability Management Python API library (python-gvm) is a collection of APIs that help with remote controlling a Greenbone Security Manager (GSM) appliance and its underlying Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (GVM). The library essentially abstracts accessing the communication protocols Greenbone Management Protocol (GMP) and Open Scanner Protocol (OSP).

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Install using pip
• Example
• Support
• Maintainer
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Requirements

Python 3.5 and later is supported.

Install using pip

You can install the latest stable release of python-gvm from the Python Package Index using pip:

pip install python-gvm

alternatively download or clone this repository and install the latest development version:

pip install .

Example

from gvm.connections import UnixSocketConnection
from gvm.protocols.latest import Gmp
from gvm.transforms import EtreeTransform
from gvm.xml import pretty_print

connection = UnixSocketConnection()
transform = EtreeTransform()
gmp = Gmp(connection, transform)

# Retrieve current GMP version
version = gmp.get_version()

# Prints the XML in beautiful form
pretty_print(version)

# Login
gmp.authenticate('foo', 'bar')

# Retrieve all tasks
tasks = gmp.get_tasks()

# Get names of tasks
task_names = tasks.xpath('task/name/text()')
pretty_print(task_names)

Documentation

The documentation for python-gvm can be found at https://python-gvm.readthedocs.io/

Support

For any question on the usage of python-gvm please use the Greenbone Community Portal. If you found a problem with the software, please create an issue on GitHub.

Maintainer

This project is maintained by Greenbone Networks GmbH.

Contributing

Your contributions are highly appreciated. Please create a pull request on GitHub. For bigger changes, please discuss it first in the issues.

For development you should use pipenv to keep you python packages separated in different environments. First install pipenv via pip

pip install --user pipenv

Afterwards run

pipenv install --dev

in the checkout directory of python-gvm (the directory containing the Pipfile) to install all dependencies including the packages only required for development.

License

Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.