Start OpenVAS on Backtrack 5 the quick way - How to

A while back I wrote myself a small cheat-sheet for getting OpenVAS started in Backtrack 5 R3, and I thought some of you might find it useful.  I don't like bouncing between menus and terminals, so I wrote the steps to be run sequentially in the terminal.

1. Make the OpenVAS SSL certificate

openvas-mkcert

2. Create the client certificate

openvas-mkcert-client -n om -i

3. Download the latest NVTs

openvas-nvt-sync

4. Start the scanner service

openvassd

5. Rebuild the NVT database

openvasmd --rebuild

6. Create and Administrator account

openvasad -c 'add_user' -n openvasadmin -r Admin

7. Start the manager

openvasmd -p 9390 -a 127.0.0.1

8. Start the Administrator

openvasad -a 127.0.0.1 -p 9393

9. Start Greenbone security assistant

gsad --http-only --listen=127.0.0.1 -p 9392

Then login at http://127.0.0.1:9392 using the username and password from step 6. If you have any issues, troubleshoot with:

/pentest/misc/openvas/openvas-check-setup