Monday, May 20, 2013

OpenVAS 6 and CentOS 6.4

On April 17th OpenVAS 6 was released. The OpenVAS folks have provided install instructions for installation on a variety of Red Hat flavors that can be found here.  Sometime soon they will be releasing a virtual appliance with everything up and running. However, in the mean time I wanted to try   out the new release.
The install instructions for CentOS did not quite get me there. After I followed the instructions on the OpenVAS site I hit the Greenbone UI at https://localhost:9392. When I tried to log in a red error message came up that said the OMP service was down. OMP stands for OpenVAS Management Protocol. It is for doing things like starting / stopping scans and creating / deleting users. In order to save some of you the trouble I created a complete list of commands to get OpenVAS 6 up and running on CentOS 6.4.


# wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh
# yum install openvas
# openvas-setup
# openvas-certdata-sync
# openvasmd --rebuild
# openvasmd

Note the 'yum install openvas' and 'openvasmd --rebuild' commands will take a few minutes. So be patient with them. I look forward to working with the new version and seeing what it can do.
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11 comments:

  1. edsonmaJune 11, 2013 at 9:40 AM

    Hi,

    I m trying to install openvas through centos repository. I am getting the message: "No package openvas available."

    Do you know what repository I have to add on my yum.repos.d/ to make yum find it?

    Thanks in advance

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  2. edsonmaJune 11, 2013 at 10:10 AM

    I found the newba error...

    I was using sudo with the command like was shown in the post.

    sudo wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |sh

    But the correct way was:

    wget -q -O - http://www.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic | sudo sh

    My mistake...

    sorry bothering u

    bye:)

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  3. king kongJune 21, 2013 at 3:18 PM

    hi
    I am hoping you can help me with this. I am trying to use this program for the longest while and cant get it to work and support & or documentation is non existant. whenever i try to run the green bone security assistant the login page says omp is down.
    I found a page that has some sample omp commands but this is what i get
    omp -v -h 127.0.0.1 -u openvasadmin -w admin -p 9390
    One command option must be present.

    nothing works. I've rebuilt it so many times used different versions found on the web from openvas, backtrack etc same thing... why is this so difficult to run

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  4. cronyJuly 9, 2013 at 6:18 AM

    openvas-check-setup is very handful tool

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  5. sreejith krishnaJuly 23, 2013 at 6:02 AM

    Hi,

    I setup Openvas and it was successful. But when I launch a scan it suddenly compltes after 1%(It showing status done). I am new to Openvas. Please help me.

    Regards
    Krishnajit

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  6. RobbsterJuly 28, 2013 at 5:47 AM

    What about debian? can someone rewrite the commands for debian?

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  7. Renan CostaJuly 30, 2013 at 6:35 AM

    Não resolveu o meu problema.
    ainda aparece "Login failed. OMP service is down."

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  8. edsonmaAugust 7, 2013 at 6:11 AM

    Hi sreejith krishna,

    I was using it normally for a while and suddenly started this strange behaviour....

    I dont know to fix this too.

    Cheers..!

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  9. UnknownAugust 20, 2013 at 4:12 AM

    http://biancheng.dnbcw.info/linux/434433.html

    Please visit the above link.

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  10. The DudeMay 7, 2014 at 12:37 PM

    If that doesn't work. try this
    openvas-nvt-sync
    openvasmd --rebuild
    openvasmd

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  11. a.k. jahid hassanDecember 24, 2015 at 3:16 AM

    What will i do. It shows in login scree "Login failed. Waiting for OMP service to become available."

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