install openvas in centos8

sed -i 's/enforcing/disabled/g' /etc/selinux/config

reboot

dnf update

yum config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
yum install epel-release

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

yum install openvas

openvas-setup

More : https://github.com/Atomicorp/gvm

• Cronjob to update CVE database

10 1 * * * /usr/sbin/greenbone-nvt-sync > /dev/null
10 2 * * * /usr/sbin/greenbone-scapdata-sync > /dev/null
10 3 * * * /usr/sbin/greenbone-certdata-sync > /dev/null

Openvas API:

gvm-cli --gmp-username USRENAME --gmp-password PASSWORD socket --sockpath /var/run/gvm/gvmd.sock --xml "<get_tasks/>"

gvm-cli socket --sockpath /var/run/gvm/gvmd.sock --xml "<get_version/>"