GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC(8)

📦 version 21.4.3, in ubuntu jammy

💖 GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC 💖

okay bestie, welcome to greenbone-nvt-sync (section 8 of the user manuals, if we're being official about it) ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

greenbone-nvt-sync — updates the OpenVAS NVTs from Greenbone Security Feed or Community Feed 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

greenbone-nvt-sync

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 The OpenVAS Scanner runs a whole bunch of security checks, and those checks are literally called Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs for short, iykyk), and they're written in the programming language NASL. Some NVTs are just wrappers around external tools, no cap.

And because new vulnerabilities get published every single day, brand-new NVTs keep showing up in the Greenbone Security Feed. 💅 That feed is commercial — it needs a subscription key to get in. And if you don't have a subscription key? Not a vibe killer, honestly: the update synchronisation just uses the Community Feed instead. 🫶

So what does the script actually do? The script greenbone-nvt-sync fetches all the new and updated security checks and installs them at the proper location. 📦 And once that's done, OpenVAS Scanner — that's openvas(8) — will automatically detect that the new and updated NVTs are there and will consider them for next activities. No restart drama, no manual poking. She just knows. 👑

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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.

and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🌈 this lil page came from The OpenVAS Project, dated January 2011 (yes she's an elder icon, respect her 💀), and she lives in the manuals as GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC(8). go sync those NVTs, you've got this 🎀💅✨

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