OpenVAS - Not able to download report after scan

Question

OpenVAS Version: OpenVAS 9 Community Edition, Greenbone OS 4.1.7

I am using OpenVAS appliance installed in Hyper-V virtual machine.

I have scanned my network and got the results. I'am able to view the scan results, but I couldn't download the report in any format (like PDF, XML etc). There is no option to select the format also. It shows, No results found.

Screen shot attached.

Answer 1

The GSM Community Edition was released in a new version 4.2 and now includes the report formats again as announced:

One noteworthy bugfix: In GCE 4.1 the report plugins were missing and now are back.

Disclaimer: Answer of a NVT Developer @ Greenbone

Answer 2

It took me a while to figure this one out as I too had the same issue. You need to import the report types. However the link to import them no longer works. As far as i can tell this version of OpenVAS does not support exporting of reports. I have since downloaded a VM of KaliLinux and installed Openvas in there. this works perfectly and includes exportable reports!

Answer 3

For version 7 of openvas just go to the configuration tab and Alerts. Create a new alert Once the window is open, scroll down and you will find the drop-down list with the different export format.

If export does not work, download the missing package with the yum command.