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. > _______________________________________________ > Openvas-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wald.intevation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openvas-discuss >
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