OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful [easyazon-link asin=”0849312701″ locale=”us”] vulnerability scanning [/easyazon-link]and [easyazon-link asin=”1439801509″ locale=”us”]vulnerability[/easyazon-link] management solution. The powerful and comprehensive OpenVAS solution is available as Free Software and maintained on a daily basis.
This tool is very simple and easy to install and here are the steps to install it on [easyazon-link asin=”1430219300″ locale=”us”] CentOS 6.3 [/easyazon-link] server:
- OpenVas package is not available in standard repos, so we need to add Atomicorp Repository
su wget -q -O – http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
- You will be prompted to agree, type YES
- You just wait till the process complete
- Now lets start the installation of OpenVas
su yum install openvas
- Run the setup to update the vulnerability database and create users and certificates
- Next run this command
su openvas-setup
- During the process you will be asked to create an user and passowrd to acess and manage your installtion of OpenVAS
- Once completed go to https://localhost:9392 and login with the credentials
In case you got error during the setup regarding plugins no worries, you can run the plugin update manually:
su openvas-nvt-sync
Now you can continue with configuration, adding hosts, adding credentials for scans as well as creating the tasks.
Refrence: http://www.openvas.org/index.html
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Hello in that first wget command – is placed as twice or there may be error in your editor. If i copy and run there comes error, only after deleting and typing only once, it executes….Thanks