Good afternoon community, I am new to this site, as well as new to using Openvas community version, which is in Vr. 25.0.0.0 installed on kali Vr. 2025.2.
After finishing the installation successfully and updating the signatures, I performed a scan, which was successful, but however when I download the report no matter what format I choose it comes out blank, even though the scan has identified vulnerabilities.
When reviewing the report configuration session this is blank, there is not a single report configured and it is at this point at which I appreciate your help, as I said initially I am new and tried to search for similar topics but did not find that would help me to solve the problem, so excuse me if there is already a post created on the subject, as well as the little experience I have with the tool.
a report config is not a report. It’s a configuration for parametrized reports. you don’t need a report config for getting a report. Please take a look at the manual of our product to get some more information.
If you try downloading a scan report in a specific format, for example as PDF, and you get an empty document, something is wrong with your setup. Most likely you are missing some TeX packages installed.
thank you very much for your support, I solved the problem. After running the installation check command gvm-check-setup I identified that the line that checks the connection to Redis is not confirmed, the following message appeared “Checking that the obsolete Redis database has been removed
Could not connect to Redis at /var/run/redis-openvas/redis-server.sock: No such file or directory”.
After verifying that the directory exists, that redis is running, run the following command:
