As you have now understood the basis of scanning with the oscap command-line tool, it will be easy to set up regular scanning with the OpenSCAP Daemon as the techniques involved are the same. Assuming that you have already installed the daemon, as we discussed earlier, it is fairly easy to create automated scans, although, at the time of writing, the OpenSCAP Daemon does not run on Ubuntu Server 18.04. This is a result of a missing CPE file, which, to date, has not been rectified, and although this did not impact our use of the oscap command-line tool (though those of who are eagle-eyed will have noticed an error relating to this file at the end of the scan), it does prevent the OpenSCAP Daemon ...
Running regular scans with the OpenSCAP Daemon
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