OpenVAS for Quick-Setup and Quick-Start OpenVAS-6 Packages

OpenVAS for CentOS via Atomic

Setup and start OpenVAS Atomicorp Repository

Step 1: Configure Atomicorp Repository
(as user root, only once)

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh

Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)

yum upgrade
yum install openvas
openvas-setup

Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS

( nothing to do, all is up and running directly after installation )

Step 4: Log into OpenVAS with user created in the step 2

Open https://localhost:9392/.

OpenVAS for Debian via OBS

Setup and start OpenVAS openSUSE Build Service (OBS)

Step 1: Configure OBS Repository
(as user root, only once)

echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/Debian_7.0/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/Debian_7.0/Release.key
apt-key add ./Release.key
sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)

apt-get -y install greenbone-security-assistant openvas-cli openvas-manager openvas-scanner openvas-administrator sqlite3 xsltproc rsync

To install support packages for report generation (downloads around 30 MB of additional packages):

apt-get -y install texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended htmldoc

To install support for autogenerated LSC credential packages:

apt-get -y install alien rpm nsis fakeroot

Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
(copy and paste whole block as user root, during first time you will be asked to set a password for user "admin")

test -e /var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem  || openvas-mkcert -q
openvas-nvt-sync
test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/om || openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i
/etc/init.d/openvas-manager stop
/etc/init.d/openvas-scanner stop
openvassd
openvasmd --rebuild
openvas-scapdata-sync
openvas-certdata-sync
test -e /var/lib/openvas/users/admin || openvasad -c add_user -n admin -r Admin
killall openvassd
sleep 15
/etc/init.d/openvas-scanner start
/etc/init.d/openvas-manager start
/etc/init.d/openvas-administrator restart
/etc/init.d/greenbone-security-assistant restart

Step 4: Log into OpenVAS as "admin"

Open https://localhost:9392/.

OpenVAS for Fedora via Atomic

Setup and start OpenVAS Atomicorp Repository

Step 1: Configure Atomicorp Repository
(as user root, only once)

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh

Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)

yum install openvas
openvas-setup

Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS

( nothing to do, all is up and running directly after installation )

Step 4: Log into OpenVAS with user created in the step 2

Open https://localhost:9392/.

OpenVAS for openSUSE via OBS

Setup and start OpenVAS openSUSE Build Service (OBS)

Step 1: Configure OBS Repository
(as user root, only once, you can replace "12.3" with other release names)

zypper ar -f  http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/openSUSE_12.3/ openvas

Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)

zypper ref && zypper in -t pattern openvas

Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS
(as user root, only once, during first time you will be asked to set a password for user "admin")

openvas-setup

Step 4: Log into OpenVAS as "admin"

Open https://localhost:9392/.

OpenVAS for RedHat via Atomic

Setup and start OpenVAS Atomicorp Repository

Step 1: Configure Atomicorp Repository
(as user root, only once)

wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh

Step 2: Quick-Install OpenVAS
(as user root, only once)

yum install openvas
openvas-setup

Step 3: Quick-Start OpenVAS

( nothing to do, all is up and running directly after installation )

Step 4: Log into OpenVAS with user created in the step 2

Open https://localhost:9392/.

OpenVAS for Windows via Greenbone

Greenbone maintains a Windows binary of the OMP command line tool for download:OMP Remote Control.

openSUSE Build Service (OBS)

With the openSUSE Build Service, packages are currently build for the following distributions:

• Debian

• openSUSE

Packages can be downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/security:/OpenVAS:/UNSTABLE:/v6/.