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
>
Well,
I am using Nagios to monitor my networks.
You'll find Nagios in nagios.org. It is a very complex but intuitive
distributed tools' set to monitor many network's services .
Moreover if you are looking for more functionality have a look to
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/ in this community you'll find much
manuals, plug in and add ons for your Nagios.
>>>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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