jammy (8) greenbone-nvt-sync.8.gz

Provided by: openvas-scanner_21.4.3-1_amd64 bug

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 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 OpenVAS Scanner, openvas(8) will automatically  detect  that  new  and
       updated NVTs are present and consider them for next activities.

SEE ALSO

       openvas(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.