This is a walkthough for installing and configuring OpenVAS (GVM) on CentOS 7. OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System) is an opensource vulnerability scanner. Update 20April2019: Greenbone is deprecating OpenVAS version 9 and version 10 is now known as Greenbone Vulnerability Manager (GVM). Likewise, the new rpms are called ‘greenbone-vulnerability-manager’ and ‘gvm-libs’ which replace the ‘openvas’ and ‘openvas-libraries’ rpms. I f you are upgrading from 9 to the latest version, you may lose your previous tasks and reports so beware! Also, if you are still on version 9 and you simply need a temporary workaround for “Report outdated Scan Engine / Environment (local)” error, scroll to the bottom. Brief History OpenVAS forked from Nessus when Tenable took the previously opensource product to closed source back in 2005. That’s worth mentioning primarily because on a side note, I’ve used Nessus for many years and I remember when it was forked. Since then, Nes