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.TH OSCAP: "30" "Jun 2010" "Red Hat" "System Administration Utilities"

.SH NAME
oscap \- OpenSCAP command line tool

.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBoscap\fR [\fIgeneral-options\fR] \fBmodule\fR operation [\fIoperation-options-and-arguments\fR]

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBoscap\fP is Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) toolkit based on OpenSCAP library. It provides various functions for 
different SCAP specifications(modules).

.SH GENERAL OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-V, -\-version\fR
SCAP specification supported by the module.
.TP
\fB\-q, \-\-quiet\fR
No output for certain operations, only return code.
.TP
\fB\-h, \-\-help\fR
Help screen.

.SH MODULES
.TP
\fBoval\fR
Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language.
.TP
\fBxccdf\fR
The eXtensible Configuration Checklist Description Format.

.SH OVAL OPERATIONS
.TP
.B collect\fR oval-definitions-file
.RS
Probe the system and gather system characteristics for objects in OVAL Definition file. Print output (OVAL System Characteristic) to standart output.
.RE
.PP
.B eval\fR [\fIoptions\fR] oval-definitions-file
.RS
Probe the system and evaluate all definitions from OVAL Definition file. Print result of each definition to standard output. oscap returns 0 if all definitions pass. If there is an error during evaluation, the return code is 1. If there is at least one failed result definition, oscap-scan finishes with return code 2.
.RE
.TP
\fB\-\-result-file FILE\fR
Write OVAL Results into file.

.SH XCCDF OPERATIONS
.TP
.B eval\fR [\fIoptions\fR] oval-definitions-file xccdf-file
.RS
Perform evaluation driven by XCCDF file and use OVAL as checking engine. Print result of each rule to standard output. oscap returns 0 if all rules pass. If there is an error during evaluation, the return code is 1. If there is at least one failed rule, oscap-scan finishes with return code 2.
.RE
.TP
\fB\-\-profile PROFILE\fR
Select profile from XCCDF document, otherwise the first profile is used.
.TP
\fB\-\-result-file FILE\fR
Write XCCDF results into file.

.SH AUTHOR
Peter Vrabec <pvrabec@redhat.com>