Do ****NOT**** change the nmap options to be more polite (i.e., changing the -T3 to be -T2 or -T1). I don't know why, but it breaks both SNMP discovery as well as discovering subnets through the "Max Hops to Scan" function.
Thanks, Tim Carr Buchanan Associates -----Original Message----- From: Tim Carr Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:02 PM To: 'Javier Szyszlican' Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [jffnms-users] Being Polite with NMAP Cool - I'll report back if anything breaks. Thanks, Tim Carr Buchanan Associates -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier Szyszlican Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:55 PM Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [jffnms-users] Being Polite with NMAP Sorry I understood interface autodiscovery, not network. I don't think it will break anything if nmap continues to give back information, and nothing times out. Javier Tim Carr wrote: > What I was talking about doing was modifying something that is already > in the autodiscovery_* scripts. They both have some hard-coded > parameters in there (not fed from JFF that I can tell). For example, > line 103 in autodiscovery_networks.php says: > > get_config_option("nmap_executable"). " -sP -PB --randomize_hosts -T3 > -iL - -oG -", > > I was going to change the "-T3" to be "-T2". Or does what you talk > about below override this line? > > Also, its not going to break anything that JFF does if the network scans > take 1-2 hours, rather than 10-15 minutes, will it? > > Thanks, > Tim Carr > Buchanan Associates > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier > Szyszlican > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 5:29 PM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [jffnms-users] Being Polite with NMAP > > You can put whatever nmap parameter you want in the Interface Types > screen AD > Parameter field for the TCP Port interface type. > > You should see some parameters already. > > Javier > > Tim Carr wrote: > >>Question about NMAP... >> >> >> >>If I wanted to be a little more "network-friendly" with JFF's use of >>NMAP, would there be any problem with changing up the >>autodiscovery_network.php and autodiscovery_interfaces.php scripts to >>have their nmap use the -T2 flag instead of -T3? I'm not sure if > > there > >>is a timing thing anywhere else that would get upset if the scans went > > >>from 10-15 minutes to a (guesstimated) 1-2 hours. >> >> >> >>Thanks, >> >>Tim Carr >> >>Buchanan Associates >> >> >> > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Javier Szyszlican, Project Leader, JFFNMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope JFFNMS or I were helpful to you, if you can, please donate at http://jffnms.org/donate ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ jffnms-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ jffnms-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jffnms-users
