2012/8/3 Whit Blauvelt <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Ran a successful Atom install yesterday on a fresh CentOS 6.3 VM. Only > glitch was had to run openvas-setup twice, as the first time froze. At that > point everything looked good. > > So I ran the default scan against a remote /27 I admin. Ran for about 3-1/2 > hours, apparently successfully. But the report shows a failure to find > services that are open on that range. All it finds is an ntp server, where > there are web, ftp, dns and a few others to be found. And it mostly fails to > fingerprint OS's either - makes one guess that an IP is either an HP printer > or Linux (it's Linux), and that's it. For example the report shows, for an > IP with web service I can easily connect to from that same VM, "Open TCP > Ports: [none found]". > > Maybe I was hoping for too much, that it would just work out of the box. > What should I look at to get real results? > > Thanks, > Whit Hi,
do you have nmap installed on the scanner box? Although nmap is not a hard requirement for OpenVAS, the scanner is able to leverage it and this can dramatically improve accuracy of the network exploration phase. Regards. -- Henri _______________________________________________ Openvas-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss
