Take a look of source of

"openvas-nvt-sync
openvas-scapdata-sync
openvas-certdata-sync"

and you will see that they really do.

Non-commercial feed is updated about once in a week and you can build own
mirror servers and use rsync or other techniques to sync your internal
openvas servers.

Eero

2017-02-28 4:50 GMT+02:00 Matthew Hall <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to ask some clarification of all the sync commands. The
> documentation I can find treats these commands as "magic" and doesn't
> discuss
> the context around using them. So far, it appears that a full update to a
> scanner requires these commands:
>
> openvas-nvt-sync
> openvas-scapdata-sync
> openvas-certdata-sync
> systemctl restart openvas-scanner openvas-manager
> openvasmd --rebuild --progress
>
> 1. Is this the correct complete set of commands to sync everything one
> should
> sync?
>
> 2. Approximately how often should each of these commands be run? Hourly,
> daily, weekly, monthly, etc.?
>
> 3. Is it indeed necessary to run openvasmd --rebuild --progress? Or will
> the
> right portions of the NVT cache be rebuilt automatically after a sync?
> Because
> this command takes a very long time.
>
> 4. Let's imagine I have greater than one scanner system at some company,
> and
> some of them have no Internet access. How can I internally sync the
> scanners?
> Both to prevent overloading OpenVAS sync servers, having IPs blocked, and
> making outbound connections that would not work, etc.?
>
> Can / should I just internally sync the following directories?
>
> /var/lib/openvas/plugins
> /var/lib/openvas/scap-data
> /var/lib/openvas/cert-data
>
> Are there additional directories / files one must sync or other commands
> one
> must perform for an internal sync to work?
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew.
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