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NAME

6       greenbone-nvt-sync  -  updates the OpenVAS NVTs from Greenbone Security
7       Feed or Community Feed
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SYNOPSIS

10       greenbone-nvt-sync
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DESCRIPTION

13       The OpenVAS Scanner performs several security checks. These are  called
14       Network  Vulnerability  Tests  (NVTs) and are mostly implemented in the
15       programming language NASL. Some NVTs are wrappers for  external  tools.
16       As  new vulnerabilities are published every day, new NVTs appear in the
17       Greenbone Security Feed. This feed is commercial and requires a respec‐
18       tive  subscription  key.   In  case no subscription key is present, the
19       update synchronisation will use the Community Feed instead.
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21       The script greenbone-nvt-sync will fetch all new and  updated  security
22       checks  and  install  them at the proper location. Once this is done it
23       will send a signal to the OpenVAS Scanner, openvassd(8) so that the new
24       NVTs  are loaded and considered for new security scans. If your instal‐
25       lation does not allow automatic restart, you need to restart the  scan‐
26       ner manually.  Subsequent to the scanner, the script also tries to send
27       a signal to the OpenVAS Manager openvasmd(8) so  that  the  information
28       about the NVTs are also updated into the Manager database.
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SEE ALSO

32       For more information see: openvassd(8), openvasmd(8)
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AUTHOR

36       This  manual  page  was  written  by Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan-oliver.wag‐
37       ner@greenbone.net>.
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39       The greenbone-nvt-sync script was written by Greenbone Networks GmbH.
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43The OpenVAS Project              January 2011            GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC(8)
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