Re: Automated Nmap Scans / Front End

[pkc_mls <pkc_mls () yahoo fr>]

tom jones a écrit :
> Hello,
> I am responsible for monitoring hundreds of machines
> over thousands of
> external IP addresses.  I currently run nmap manually
> once a week and import
> the results into Excel to compare them with the
> previous week to find hosts
> that are new and also take note of those that have
> been taken off the
> Internet.  I am looking for a web front end, batch
> process, or similar that
> would meet the following requirements.
>
> -Input file of external IP ranges I am responsible for
> -Have the tool scan all ranges to determine responding
> IPs
> -Compare results to previous week and note exceptions
> -Scheduling capability to have this take place weekly
>
> >From a quick search, I found these two tools that I
> might try out if I have
> time.  I have not heard of them before and have not
> had a chance to read up
> on their capabilities:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwmos/
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/cancerbero/
>
> I am also interested to hear thoughts on the best way
> to do host discovery.
> Many of our firewalls will block ICMP requests which
> is fast and not
> complete.  Scanning for every TCP and UDP port can
> take days.  I'm looking
> for a good middle ground that would be fairly complete
> but not take an
> excessive amount of time.  I currently scan for about
> 15 common TCP ports
> which takes about half of a day.
>   
You can also consider using hping to check for the netbios port rather 
than a basic icmp.
This could go through the firewall if your rules allow it.
You can then run an nmap to check which ports are open if the netbios 
responds on hping.
> I have the ability to run these on either a Windows XP
> machine or a web
> server (php, etc.).  
>
>   
hping works better on Unix/Linux.
> Thanks in advance.
>   

        

        
                
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