[Open-scap] What does this error mean?

[Erinn Looney-Triggs]

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On 02/17/2014 01:04 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Monday, February 17, 2014 12:53:39 PM Erinn Looney-Triggs
> wrote:
>> Using scap-workbench on Fedora 20, trying to scan a remote
>> system:
>> 
>> 12:48:22 | [info] Opened file 
>> '/usr/share/xml/scap/ssg/fedora/ssg-fedora-xccdf.xml'.
>> 
>> 12:48:36 | [err ] There was a problem when setting up the
>> scanner. Details follow: There was a problem with
>> OscapScannerRemoteSsh! You can only use source datastreams for
>> scanning remotely!
>> 
>> The above doesn't make much sense to me, perhaps it should be
>> changed around a bit to be a little more verbose for us mere
>> mortals ;)
> 
> If you are doing remote scanning, you need the xccdf, oval, and cpe
> files. The tool is expecting the content to be sent as a datastream
> which means that all 3 are combined into 1 file using a specific
> format (in the SCAP 1.2 specification). What this is saying is the
> content being used to scan with is not a data stream and it cannot
> resolve the objects in order to do a scan.
> 
> -Steve
> 

Thanks Steve.

Well having zip for experience with this, how do you make that happen
with scap-workbench? It doesn't seem to offer enough fields to fulfill
those requirements, but maybe I am missing something.

- -Erinn
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