OpenVas

OpenVas notes

I have found running openvas with Greenbone to be difficult and alot of overhead, being able to run from a command line works for me. Greenbone is a nice gui if you need gui.

Install openvas

apt-get install openvas-client

apt-get install openvas-server

add user

/usr/sbin/openvas-adduser

create cert

/usr/sbin/openvas-mkcert

update plugins

/usr/sbin/openvas-nvt-sync

start server

/usr/sbin/openvasd -D

Verify server running

netstat -nap |grep openvas

Create target file

echo "192.168.0.5" >> target.txt

start scan

/usr/bin/OpenVAS-Client -q 127.0.0.1 9390 admin PASSWD target.txt scanresults.html -T html