Hi!
In following this thread, I decided to check on my own installation.
Sure enough, while the file secpod_ms12-020.nasl was in my plugins
directory, it was not listed in GSA under the Microsoft Bulletins
family. Following Matthew's advice, I ran openvasmd --rebuild...
HOWEVER, unlike Rick, this did NOT make the plugin accessible via GSA.
I was able to delete tasks.db and do another --rebuild, and the plugin
was accessible, however of course doing that makes me lost my tasks,
scan configs, etc.
Any advice on what I may be doing wrong here, or what the problem is?
TIA,
L.
On 3/19/2012 1:26 PM, Matthew Mundell wrote:
However, in GSA, when I browse the "Windows : Microsoft Bulletins"
family, the plugin is not listed. I imagine this may be normal
behavior and I've missed some manual step to link the plugin with its
family. Or, perhaps something is misconfigured.
Did you do a --rebuild of openvasmd? This is required to get the new info
to GSA.
My immediate question is, how do I activate this plugin so I can scan with it?
A more fundamental question: How does openvas track associations
between plugins and their respective families? Is this in DB
somewhere, a conf file, etc?
The Scanner reads this info from the NVTs, so the NVTs are the database.
The Manager stores this info in an sqlite database
(var/lib/openvas/mgr/tasks.db) but this is internal to Manager and clients
like GSA must use the OMP protocol to access the info.
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