check_gmp is a plugin for nagios or similar systems. It communicates with a Greenbone Security Manager and retrieve vulnerability data of specific hosts. These data are saved in reports. For better performance check_gmp saves the generated reports from the gsm in a sqlite database.

• gvm-tools

• Python3

To install it, after downloading the repository, you have to copy check_gmp.py into the nagios plugin directory.

On Debian Linux Systems:

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins

Otherwise to test the script without nagios, you can execute it directly with:

$ python3 check_gmp.py ssh -H host -u user -w pass --ping

There are several command parameter. Some of them will be explained in detail in future.