Feed Synchronization
When Anchore Enterprise runs it will begin to synchronize security feed data from the Anchore feed service.
CVE data for Linux distributions such as Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Oracle, Red Hat and Ubuntu will be downloaded. The initial sync may take anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes depending on the speed of your network connection.
Checking Feed Status
Starting with Anchore Engine version 0.2.0 the status of the feed synchronization can be retrieved through the API and Anchore CLI.
anchore-cli system feeds list
Feed Group LastSync RecordCount
vulnerabilities alpine:3.3 2018-04-25T11:51:33.567214Z 457
vulnerabilities alpine:3.4 2018-04-25T11:51:33.976689Z 594
vulnerabilities alpine:3.5 2018-04-25T11:51:24.447436Z 649
vulnerabilities alpine:3.6 2018-04-25T11:51:32.413834Z 632
vulnerabilities alpine:3.7 2018-04-25T11:51:36.313911Z 689
vulnerabilities centos:5 2018-04-25T11:51:22.453408Z 1270
vulnerabilities centos:6 2018-04-25T11:51:22.966213Z 1245
vulnerabilities centos:7 2018-04-25T11:51:35.102044Z 621
vulnerabilities debian:10 2018-04-25T11:51:37.509069Z 16858
vulnerabilities debian:7 2018-04-25T11:51:20.383254Z 20225
vulnerabilities debian:8 2018-04-25T11:51:21.275382Z 19027
vulnerabilities debian:9 2018-04-25T11:51:23.704236Z 17662
vulnerabilities debian:unstable 2018-04-25T11:51:25.831878Z 17859
vulnerabilities ol:5 2018-04-25T11:51:24.931268Z 1213
vulnerabilities ol:6 2018-04-25T11:51:28.358076Z 1276
vulnerabilities ol:7 2018-04-25T11:51:28.733646Z 685
vulnerabilities ubuntu:12.04 2018-04-25T11:51:34.452081Z 14945
vulnerabilities ubuntu:12.10 2018-04-25T11:51:35.517364Z 5652
vulnerabilities ubuntu:13.04 2018-04-25T11:51:35.923466Z 4127
vulnerabilities ubuntu:14.04 2018-04-25T11:51:29.495143Z 15311
vulnerabilities ubuntu:14.10 2018-04-25T11:51:33.162533Z 4456
vulnerabilities ubuntu:15.04 2018-04-25T11:51:30.617371Z 5676
vulnerabilities ubuntu:15.10 2018-04-25T11:51:31.957883Z 6511
vulnerabilities ubuntu:16.04 2018-04-25T11:51:26.467438Z 12288
vulnerabilities ubuntu:16.10 2018-04-25T11:51:27.961046Z 8646
vulnerabilities ubuntu:17.04 2018-04-25T11:51:39.485986Z 9156
vulnerabilities ubuntu:17.10 2018-04-25T11:51:22.047635Z 7169
This command will report list the feeds synchronized by Anchore Enterprise, last sync time and current record count.
Note: Time is reported as UTC, not local time.
Manually initiating feed sync
After the initial sync has completed the system will run an incremental sync at a user defined period, by default every 4 hours. At any time a feed sync can be initiated through the API or CLI.
A sync operation can be manually initiated by running the system feeds sync command however this should not be required under normal operation.
anchore-cli system feeds sync
Performing full resync
Anchore Enterprise can be instructed to flush the current feed data and perform a full synchronization.
Under normal circumstances this operation should not be required since Anchore Enterprise performs regular incremental sync.
This process may take anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes depending on the speed of your network connection.
anchore-cli system feeds sync --flush
The CLI will issue a warning and prompt for confirmation before proceeding with a sync.
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