Greenbone Vulnerability Management is a software framework including several services in tools for vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management.

Installation

GVM can be installed through the terminal using APT

sudo apt install gvm

Setup

Open a terminal and run the following:

sudo gvm-setup

The process may take a very long time to complete. The default administrator password is random and displayed at the end of the setup process. You can now run sudo gvm-check-setup to confirm that GVM is set up correctly.

Make GVM available on external interface

To make the GVM web interface available to other machines on the network, open /lib/systemd/system/gsad.service and replace the 127.0.0.1 with 0.0.0.0 Then run the following:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo gvm-stop; sudo gvm-start

The web interface should open automatically. Log in with username admin and the password that was generated during setup.

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