Question

zenmap/nmap is a powerful network administration tool

Based on your readings and experimentation, write a paragraph on how nmap/zenmap

works, what types of information it provides ?

Note: provide relaible refrences for your answer.

Answer 1

Nmap is a network mapper or scanner which is used for network discovery and probing computer networks .Nmap is free and open source. It is most usefull for network administrators in networking monitoring and host uptime.

It provides information about the network infrastructure and its services overview about how those are working, It provides scanning of large network. Nmap runs on all the operating systems like linux, window's, mac etc..

Nmap ia powersull, flexibill, portable, easy, free, flexible,well documented, supported, acclaimed etc.. This features are vulnerability detection, more advanced service detection etc..

Zenmap is the original graphical interface for the nmap security scanner used by tye users to know tye complete information about anything.

As it is developed for linux initially and then for other OS. So to best understand this concept linux.com ==>beegginers guide for nmap is the best one.