NAME

       greenbone-nvt-sync - updates the OpenVAS NVTs from Greenbone Security Feed or Community 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 vulnerabilities are published every day, new NVTs appear in the Greenbone Security Feed. This feed
       is commercial and requires a respective subscription key.  In case no subscription key  is  present,  the
       update synchronisation will use the Community Feed instead.

       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 send a signal to the OpenVAS Scanner, openvassd(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.  Subsequent to the scanner, the script also  tries  to
       send a signal to the OpenVAS Manager openvasmd(8) so that the information about the NVTs are also updated
       into the Manager database.

SEE ALSO

       For more information see: openvassd(8), openvasmd(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.