greenbone-nvt-sync - updates the OpenVAS NVTs from Greenbone Security Feed or
Community Feed
The OpenVAS Scanner performs several security checks. These are called
Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) and are implemented in the programming
language NASL. Some NVTs are wrappers for external tools. As new
vulnerabilities are published every day, new NVTs appear in the Greenbone
Security Feed. This feed is commercial and requires a respective subscription
key. In case no subscription key is present, the update synchronisation will
use the Community Feed instead.
The script greenbone-nvt-sync will fetch all new and
updated security checks and install them at the proper location. Once this
is done OpenVAS Scanner, openvas(8) will automatically detect that new and
updated NVTs are present and consider them for next activities.
This manual page was written by Jan-Oliver Wagner
<jan-oliver.wagner@greenbone.net>.
The greenbone-nvt-sync script was written by Greenbone
Networks GmbH.