Re: Automated Nmap Scans / Front End

["David M. Zendzian" <dmz () dmzs com>]

Have you checked out inprotect? http://inprotect.sourceforge.net/

tom jones wrote:
> 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.
>
> I have the ability to run these on either a Windows XP
> machine or a web
> server (php, etc.).  
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  
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