Hi Jake, you may also want to look at ntop, which monitors a network through sniffing (rather than active scanning), but integrates nmap to probe hosts.
There are a few commercial tools out there that do this kind of thing (or similar, or sub/supersets). I've used What's Up Gold quite a bit. Just did a little google and https://freemap.qualys.com/ looks interesting, and being browser based, there's a certain amount of freedom for the client end. Have fun and keep us in the loop. Later'ish Craig > -----Original Message----- > From: Jake Kallman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 9:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Nmap-based mapping/monitoring tool > > > I am developing a network monitoring and mapping tool based > around nmap, > which will provide a graphical representation of a network > topology and > maintain a database of information about computers in that > network. In > essence, it will take the output of namp, run at scheduled > intervals, and > compare that data against data from previous runs to try and flag > potential security and infrastructure problems. > > The idea, at a high level is fairly simple, and in fact is a > little more > complicated than it needs to be since I'm doing this as a project to > complete my undergraduate degree in CS. I'm writing a driver program, > which will sit on a network server somewhere, and will run nmap at > scheduled intervals on all computers in the network (which > I'm going to > try and optimize somewhat by allowing for multiple nmapping > servers in the > network so as to distribute the work as much as possible). There will > also be a client application which will allow a user to > access this data > remotely (ideally I'm trying to create this client application to > allow users to log into the server from multiple platforms, > like PDAs and > cell phones, which might not be currently available, but when > I talked to > some network engineers in my area they said that it would be a great > feature). The client will access the data from the server program, and > create a graphical map of the network, showing any potential problem > areas. Ideally, I want to be able to flag network slowdowns > and outages, > newly enabled/disabled ports on machines, newly connected > machines (with > an eye toward being able to watch for unauthorized wireless > connections) > and things of that nature. > > My question is whether or not this seems like a usable idea? > If not, then > what seems unfeasible about the design? _______________________________________________ Ntop-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listgateway.unipi.it/mailman/listinfo/ntop-dev
