OpenVAS

Installation

Requeriments

Install docker

sudo apt update
sudo apt install docker.io

Start docker service

We have two options, choose one:

Start the docker service and enable it to autostart after future restarts. (Recommended)

sudo systemctl enable docker

Start the docker service once (Important: You'll need to start manually after every restart)
Use one of this commands

sudo systemctl start docker

or

sudo service docker start

Install OpenVAS in a docker container

The OpenVAS will be installed in a docker container make it especifically to it.
Run this command and all instalation will complete after a while, be patient.

sudo docker run -d -p 443:443 --name openvas mikesplain/openvas

Now, OpenVAS is installed in a docker container and also is already running as a server.
As a client we need to connect to the server through the browser, usually to the https://127.0.0.1:443/ or the URL showed in the console after installation.

Important

This just work right now but to make it work after restart, you will need to run docket again with the start command from above, or use the enable command and forget the start the service every restart

Problems

If the docker service is running, you can use this command to show info from containers like names, status, ID and others:

sudo docker ps -a

You can check the status of the container in the STATUS column. Like Up or Down

If for any reason the docker service is running but the container it is not running (Down)

You need to start the container manually with this command: (You'll need the container's name)

docker start name_of_docker