Nmap examples
nmap is an free, open-source and powerful tool used to discover hosts and services on a computer network. In our example, we are using nmap to scan this machine to identify all services that are running on a particular port. nmap has many capabilities, below is a table summarising some of the functionality it provides.
Common example:
nmap -sV -sC -Pn $IP
nmap -A -sC -oN $text_name $IP
common parameters:
-sV :Attempts to determine the version of the services running
-p <x> or -p- :Port scan for port <x> or scan all ports
-Pn :Disable host discovery and just scan for open ports
-A :Enables OS and version detection, executes in-build scripts for further enumeration
-sC :Scan with the default nmap scripts
-v :Verbose mode
-sU :UDP port scan
-sS :TCP SYN port scan
-oN/-oX/-oS/-oG <file>: Output scan in normal, XML, s|<rIpt kIddi3,
and Grepable format, respectively, to the given filename.