Re: Storing scan results

[Anthony Persaud <apersaud () gmail com>]

Sure - I agree, I just thought that the module might help someone else.

Thanks.

On 6/15/05, "Grodås, Ole Morten" <omgrodaas () fih mil no> wrote:
> Hi Anthony
>
> While I do see that perl is well suited language to use for this XML to database conversion. It is my opionion that 
> this should be handled by nmap and written in C++. I think it will be a mistak to make nmap dependet on perl only for 
> simplifying this convertion. Including this as a function in nmap will give us a standardized way to save scanresults 
> in databases. You then have the opportunity to use whatever tool you would like to do analysis on this results.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Fra: Anthony Persaud [mailto:apersaud () gmail com]
> Sendt: 15. juni 2005 17:59
> Til: soc () insecure org; nmap-dev () insecure org; Grodås, Ole Morten
> Emne: RE: Storing scan results
>
>
> For administrators, who end up writing scripts in perl (for
> crons..etc) to store and analyze nmap scans - there is an Nmap::Parser
> Perl module that will either take parse the xml output file from nmap
> (parsefile()), or perform a scan of its own and parse it
> (parsescan()).
>
> You can use this module, to manipulate the data however you want. I
> have written an initial script (quick n' dirty), that will be
> available in the next release of the module. (Fully documented, and
> more features etc..)
>
> It uses SQLite as the database interface and stored (or updated) the
> entries of the table with IP,MAC,Status,Hostname,Open TCP Ports,
> Filtered TCP Ports, OS Family, OS Gen and time of scan.
>
> Hopefully others can find this useful. (Note that this is the initial
> version of the script, but it should work) For more info:
> http://www.nmapparser.com or
> http://search.cpan.org/~apersaud/Nmap-Parser/
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Persaud


-- 
Anthony G Persaud
ironstar () iastate edu

"Good is the Enemy of Great" - Jim Collins


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