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Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone?
From: Fyodor <fyodor () insecure org>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 16:29:29 -0700
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 06:32:14PM -0700, stripe dog wrote:
Hey all, Just thought I'd post a quick node design to elicit comments/suggestions: http://barney.gonzaga.edu/~cnevins/nmap/prettymapgraphics.htm Thoughts, anyone? Like it? Hate it? Constructive ideas? Destructive ideas?
Overall I think these nodes look great! They are definitely an improvement over the previous ones. A few notes: o You may not want to show filtered ports, as there are often thousands of these (for exampe scanme.nmap.org). And I'm not sure that 'filtered' ports are any more deversing of being shown than closed ports. If you are going to show port states other than open, 'open|filtered' is probably the best contender. But even then you'll have to find some way to deal with the case where there are thousands of them. One thing to consider would be to just list the # of ports in each non-open state. Possibly only when someone clicks the "more info" arrow you have. o The overall node structure looks good. You may need a third detail level which is even smaller, which may only signify device type and maybe OS and maybe the rough # of open ports. Then perhaps you could mouse-hover over it to get the large node picture (or a textual Nmap-results-style representation). o Your "OS" example and icon is Redhat Linux. Usually Nmap doesn't give you this much detail (though it occasionally does). So in reality you'll probably just have to focus on the OS family. You might want to consider putting a device type there instead for things like printers and routers and such. Or maybe you could even have to use specialized icons covering both OS and device type (e.g. Cisco router vs. Cisco WAP vs. Cisco Firewall). o The planned mapping of connections between hosts will certainly be interesting to see. o In the "big" image, it might be nice to include version detection information (at least up to a certain length limitation), kinda like how you provide the OS details in the bar across the top of the host. o Some users might find the "white on gray" IP address hard to read. Maybe if you added more contrast by making the bar darker or changing the FG color, you could make the text smaller so you could fit the rDNS hostname under the IP too. Or maybe the app could have a toggle box for changing whether hostnames or IPs are shown. I hope this helps and look forward to seeing this develop! Cheers, -F _______________________________________________ Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Current thread:
- SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? stripe dog (May 30)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? Louis Nyffenegger (May 31)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? Fyodor (Jun 02)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? stripe dog (Jun 06)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? Fyodor (Jun 08)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? Kevin Davis (Jun 09)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? stripe dog (Jun 09)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? Fyodor (Jun 09)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? stripe dog (Jun 12)
- Re: SOC: Quick thoughts on node design, anyone? stripe dog (Jun 06)