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To update the certificates with new ones, customer can run the following commands as the root user on the Snare Central Server from the CLI prompt.
as the root user shell:
$ sudo openvas-manage-certs -a -f
service $ sudo systemctl restart openvas-scanner
$ sudo systmectl restart
service openvas-manager
$sudo systemctl restart
service openvas-gsa restart
Then you can validate the cert dates status using the following commands
$ cat /var/lib/openvas/CA/clientcert.pem | openssl x509 -noout -dates
$ cat /var/lib/openvas/CA/cacert.pem | openssl x509 -noout -dates
$ cat /var/lib/openvas/CA/servercert.pem | openssl x509 -noout -dates
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Second option is to stop the service then disable the service from starting from a reboot.
service $ sudo systemctl stop openvas-gsa
$ sudo systemctl stop openvas-scanner
$sudo systemctl stop openvas-manager
$ sudo systemctl disable openvas-gsa
$sudo systemctl disable openvas-scanner
$sudo systemctl disable openvas-manager