How To Install Openvas On Centos 7

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OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System,the name of the fork originally known as GNessUs) is a framework of several services and tools offering a vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.
All OpenVAS products are Free Software. Most components are licensed under the GPL.

OpenVas began, under the name of GNessUs, as a fork of the previously open source Nessus scanning tool after Tenable Network Security changed it to a proprietary (closed source) license in October 2005. OpenVAS was originally proposed by pentesters at Portcullis Computer Security and then announced by Tim Brown on Slashdot.

OpenVAS is a member project of Software in the Public Interest.
INSTALLATION
First you need Install required packages Bellow

                              yum install wget bzip2 texlive net-tools alien

After that need to add atomic repository to install openvas as follows

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

Now Disable The SELINUX

                              Edit /etc/selinux/config

# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: #     enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. #     permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. #     disabled - No SELinux policy is loaded. SELINUX=disabled # SELINUXTYPE= can take one of these two values: #     targeted - Targeted processes are protected, #     mls - Multi Level Security protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted

Now install Openvas by using following command in terminal by using yum

                              yum -y install openvas

Now Edit the openvas config file and add or uncomment the following lines

                              edit /etc/redis.conf

unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock unixsocketperm 700

Restart Redis

                              systemctl enable redis && systemctl restart redis

Once All done then start the setup process by using the command openvas-setup. This is going to take some time. You will be prompted for some information shortly

                              openvas-setup

It downloads the latest databases once it completed, enter the Administrator password

Step 2: Configure GSAD The Greenbone Security Assistant is a Web Based front end for managing scans. By default it is configured to only allow connections from localhost.  Allow connections from any IP? [Default: yes]  Allow connections from any IP? [Default: yes] Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart   gsad.service  Step 3: Choose the GSAD admin users password. The admin user is used to configure accounts, Update NVT's manually, and manage roles.  Enter administrator username [Default: admin] : Enter Administrator Password: Verify Administrator Password: Empty password not allowed.  Enter Administrator Password: Verify Administrator Password: Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start redis.service  Setup complete, you can now access GSAD at: https://192.168.2.56:9392

once completed, you are able to login.Before that, we're just going to disable firewalld service . my case i have centos 7 it's depend on os version

              systemctl stop firewalld systemctl mask firewalld

Or You can exception for tcp 9392

                              firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=9392/tcp firewall-cmd --reload

Now Go to your web browser, type the url as https://192.168.2.56:9392(In my case my ip address is 192.168.2.56) default username is admin and enter the password entered during setup, and you should be able to login.