OpenVAS scan not working - Kali linux

Question

Currently having an issue with my kali VM. I installed Openvas, but when I try and initiate a scan with the admin user I get the following error message:

Operation: Run Wizard Status Code: 400 Status message: Service temporarily down

Has any one experienced this before? Searched online and couldn't really find any solutions.

Thanks for your time.

Answer 1

I used the Virtual Appliance (Virtual Machine), getting error 400 first and later 503 with "Service temporarily down" when trying to scan.

Solution that worked was found at http://openvas-discuss.wald.intevation.narkive.com/TTK5H8YI/openvas-8-virtual-appliance-unable-to-start-task and can be found at http://plugins.openvas.org/ova_503.txt .

It comes down to stopping services, rebuilding the certificates, updating config and then restarting services. It is a 12 steps process that takes several minutes (maybe 30). I will not copy/paste, the second link above contains all the steps.