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LAN/WAN Configuration Management
From: Fred Eisele <phreed () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 14:29:09 -0400
Sorry that the following is a bit scattered. My goal is to devise a schema for doing network configuration management. I would like to see a stronger xml presence in nmap, as I feel that would make it easier to integrate nmap into such a mechanism In particular, I would like to see/develop... - some nice graphical output (in svg) - a network description schema (of which the nmap output would be a subset) - a network device part list (the os-fingerprint file) Back in... http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2003/Apr-Jun/0105.html ...you introduced a device classification mechanism (by the way, thanks). It doesn't look like anyone written an xslt for creating a html and svg output yet? What would you like to see? I would like to see a WAN diagram on one page with a separate page for each LAN. In order to do svg a couple of other things are needed... - an svg image (maybe in the fingerprint file) - categorization in the fingerprint file (maybe the current classification is sufficient) - some (auto-)layout mechanism Didn't I see some activity on a delta tool for nmap? I don't see it in the mailing lists anywhere. Have you considered making use of a "proper" xml dom library (e.g. libxml2, xerces) rather than the roll-your-own technique? This could make the -append-output problem... http://seclists.org/lists/nmap-dev/2005/Oct-Dec/0000.html ...quite a bit easier to handle. The other approach would be to write a separate program that would merge an nmap xml output into a master topology file. It would be helpful if the master file described certain missing information. For example, the routing tables. Anyway, the question, I guess, is whether nmap could use that information to do a better job of scanning? If you are interested I would be willing to... - create patches incorporating either a sax or dom parser to: -- produce output -- read a fingerprint file -- read an input master file - develop an svg (and maybe a visio) representation mechanism I really like the master file approach as it would make it possible to repeat a prior scan and see the changes to the network. Clearly, the xml schema would have to change to support a difference notation. peace _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Current thread:
- LAN/WAN Configuration Management Fred Eisele (Oct 03)
- Re: LAN/WAN Configuration Management Nils Magnus (Oct 03)
- Re: LAN/WAN Configuration Management kx (Oct 03)
- Re: LAN/WAN Configuration Management Ole Morten Grodås (Oct 04)
- Re: LAN/WAN Configuration Management Fyodor (Oct 05)
- Re: LAN/WAN Configuration Management Nils Magnus (Oct 03)