NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

       greenbone-nvt-sync

DESCRIPTION

       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.

SEE ALSO

       openvas(8)

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.

The OpenVAS Project                               January 2011                             GREENBONE-NVT-SYNC(8)