Yes, I tried that out but it didn’t solve the issue.

Somehow the rebuild also finished within a second.

I did get things working but I deleted the tasks.dn file along with the
above steps. Don’t know why that solved the issue, but it did.

Regards,
Harsh

On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 at 5:57 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:

> "Authentication Configuration not found" is the clue.
>
> After generating new server certificates (different process to the client
> certificates) you will need to register the new scanner CA with openvasmd.
> This is what worked for me.
>
> root@localhost:~# openvasmd --modify-scanner **uuid**  --scanner-ca-pub
> /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem --scanner-key-pub
> /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/CA/clientcert.pem --scanner-key-priv
> /usr/local/var/lib/openvas/private/CA/clientkey.pem
>
> Then you should be able to openvasmd --rebuild
>
> More details here
> https://hackertarget.com/openvas-tutorial-tips/#openvas-update-certificates
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> [email protected]
> *Hacker Target Pty Ltd*
> https://hackertarget.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Harsh kapadia <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I’ve tried searching for solution to the below issue but nothing seems to
>> work. Have been unable to run openvas scans – it shows the below error:
>>
>> Operation: Start Task
>>
>> Status code: 503
>>
>> Status message: Service temporarily down
>>
>> Previously the status code used to be 400 and now it’s 503.
>>
>> The logs under openvasmd.log shows the below details:
>>
>> lib auth:   INFO:2017-12-05 15h19.53 utc:15073: Authentication configuration 
>> not found.
>> base gpgme:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h27.09 CST:15665: Setting GnuPG homedir to 
>> '/var/lib/openvas/gnupg'
>> base gpgme:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h27.09 CST:15665: Using OpenPGP engine 
>> version '2.0.22'
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 09h27.41 CST:15715: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> event task:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h27.41 CST:15715: Task 
>> 1ff6e5b7-0239-40ea-8da5-e79483f687ec could not be started by etvasadmin
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 15h28.05 utc:15757: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> lib auth:   INFO:2017-12-05 15h28.25 utc:15803: Authentication configuration 
>> not found.
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 09h30.19 CST:15996: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> event task:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h30.19 CST:15996: Task 
>> eca758bd-545d-4822-9308-6db135f33432 could not be started by etvasadmin
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 09h37.51 CST:16313: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> event task:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h37.51 CST:16313: Task 
>> add3fcd0-9cc1-4b0c-9e1f-81423902249e could not be started by etvasadmin
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 09h47.36 CST:16708: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> event task:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h47.36 CST:16708: Task 
>> add3fcd0-9cc1-4b0c-9e1f-81423902249e could not be started by etvasadmin
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 15h54.52 utc:17022: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 15h57.55 utc:17102: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 15h58.00 utc:17106: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> lib auth:   INFO:2017-12-05 15h58.21 utc:17154: Authentication configuration 
>> not found.
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 09h59.08 CST:17229: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> event task:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h59.08 CST:17229: Task 
>> 1ff6e5b7-0239-40ea-8da5-e79483f687ec could not be started by etvasadmin
>> lib  serv:WARNING:2017-12-05 09h59.50 CST:17270: openvas_server_new_mem: 
>> Error in parsing.
>> event task:MESSAGE:2017-12-05 09h59.50 CST:17270: Task 
>> ff8752df-5b26-46f8-90fa-1c6bedcf61fe could not be started by etvasadmin
>>
>> The initial issue was an expired certificate and that was resolved by
>> following the steps from http://plugins.openvas.org/ova_503.txt - but
>> that still does not make the scans to start. The 'openvasmd-rebuild'
>> command got executed within a second..
>>
>> Also, all the services [openvas-scanner, openvas-manager, redis & gsad]
>> are running perfectly when checked via systemctl.
>>
>> Would someone please let me know what next steps should be followed to
>> remediate this.
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Harsh
>>
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