Man page of GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC
GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC
Section: User Manuals (8)
Updated: January 2011
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NAME
greenbone-nvt-sync - updates the OpenVAS security checks from Greenbone Security Feed
SYNOPSIS
greenbone-nvt-sync
DESCRIPTION
The
OpenVAS Scanner
performs several security checks. These are called Network Vulnerability Tests
(NVTs) and are mostly implemented in the programming language NASL. Some NVTs are
wrappers for external tools.
As new security holes are published every day, new NVTs appear in the
Greenbone Security Feed. This feed is commercial and requires a respective subscription key.
The OpenVAS project offers a free Feed which can be issued via openvas-nvt-sync(8).
The script
greenbone-nvt-sync
will fetch all new and updated security checks and install them at the proper
location. Once this is done it will try to restart the openvas-scanner(8)
so that the new NVTs are loaded and considered for new security scans. If your installation
does not allow automatic restart, you need to restart the scanner manually.
SEE ALSO
For more information see:
openvassd(8),
openvas-nvt-feed(8)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by
Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan-oliver.wagner@greenbone.net>.
The
greenbone-nvt-sync
script was written by Greenbone Networks GmbH.
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