Performing a vulnerability scan

As apuser, you can perform a vulnerability scan of the IAS machine and generate a report.

Procedure

  1. Upload or use wget to download rhel-8.oval.xml.bz2.
  2. Unzip the downloaded file to get the rhel-8.oval.xml file:
    bzip2 -dk rhel-8.oval.xml.bz2
  3. Run the command:
    oscap oval eval --results rhsa-results-oval.xml --report vulnerability-report.html rhel-8.oval.xml
  4. Download and examine the vulnerability-report.html in a web browser.