Okay well, first of all, I am very new with backbox, but I am pretty good at trouble shooting things in general. As many others, I have ran into several issues with openVAS and setting it up to run properly. I screwed up my first installation somehow, but following a purge and reinstall, and following the generous information from previous posts and sinflood.net's post installation setup, I managed to get it functional last night after about 2 days of working on it. I was very excited and pleased. THen today, I went ahead and tried to start everything up... Oh crap, that same darn Starting OpenVas Manager error.. WTF!! Well, I decided to play with the extremely valuable script openvas-check-setup.. I just make sure to sudo -s prior to running the script to avoid a hassle of permission denials. Hmm what a interesting read out.
To highlight MY particular errors discovered through that script in order... - Problem:Issues with tasks.db being corrupt, etc. Fix: Purge/Reinstall/Following postinstallation from sinflood.net exactly. This lead to my first successful login to the Greenbone Security Assistant. Next problem, today: Same Openvasmd error... weird... frustrating.. especially since it was working last night.. I run the openvas-check-setup script again... this time a different error, which changed occassionally, but essentially the same error. 1: Openvas Manager not runnning!(openvasmd) well.. okay... duh.. Openvas Administrator not running! (openvasad). Greenbone Security assistant not running (gsad).. Fix: okay well... everytime i tried to openvas-services start, I got the same manager error. so I decided to restart, then run the check script again, to see which openvas service was not running. then i simply executed the service manually; ie: sudo openvasad start ; sudo openvasmd start ; sudo gasd start , etc.. Time to run the openvas-check-setup script again and see if it worked... SWEET, "It seems like your OpenVAS-6 installation is okay" Im stoaked, so what do I do? I try and go to localhost:9392 like i did last night... CRAP it doesnt work.. Now, I go back and carefully read through the readout from the openvas-check-setup... well a few weird things are noted... one, my ports are all over the place according to the read out. Openvas Scanner port is at 9391 ; Openvas Manager port is at 9390 ; Openvas Administrator port is at 9393; and the Greenbone Security Assistant is on port 443, for whatever reason. Now I figure I should test the Greenbone security assistant.. soo.. open up the web and shoot in localhost:443 and there we go... the log in screen arrives like it did last night..
Now, I wouldn't go so far as saying I have OpenVas functional, as I have not even got around to testing it out, etc. but I wanted to share what I ran into so anyone else with trouble, or people far more experienced with backbox and or openvas can figure a more permanent solution. I still have full logs, if anyone wants em, let me know and I will post them.
Oh and a few details that might be important. Running backbox via VirtualMachine through VMWare workstation 10. Let me know if I can help, even if I really am quite a beginner. Again, I'm very new to backbox and the forum, so if I'm screwing up any etiquette please let me know.
