Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Mapping (was Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break into" the Pen-Testing field)

[Carric Dooley <carric () COM2USA COM>]

I agree, but the problem with cheops is that you can't use the data with
anything else.  If you wanted to use a few tools to map your network, it's
difficult to dump it all to a database.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Nazario" <jose () BIOCSERVER BIOC CWRU EDU>
To: <PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 2:52 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-TEST] Network Mapping (was Re: [PEN-TEST] How to "break
into" the Pen-Testing field)


> On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, batz wrote:
>
> > Making a network map; White board, and visio has cute widgets.
>
> nothing like doing it by hand to make it the best, but sometimes it can
> help to have some automation.
>
> the Linux/*BSD tool "cheops" can be helpful here. i haven't played with it
> in a while, so it may not be yet 1.0, but it's kind of neat. you can
> actually get a decent map built rather quickly.
>
> also look for opennms stuff, a group that are trying to do an open source
> competitor to HP's network management software.
>
> http://www.marko.net/cheops/
> http://www.opennms.org/
>
> i hope this helps.
>
> jose nazario jose () biochemistry cwru edu
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