Re: Request for improvement

[Daniel Miller <bonsaiviking () gmail com>]

On 11/01/2012 12:07 AM, Eric Ndungu wrote:
> I hope this email finds you fine. i love nmap and its  a very good tool
> for scanning . but the way it displays output (for instance ping scan or
>   port scan )is very cumbersome and ugly to say the least .list all the
> information in a vertical manner is very ugly and makes analysis a
> headache as i have to scroll up and down up and down . please in your
> next release make sure you redesign the application such that for
> instance if i were to do a port scan i get the results in horizontal
> format like below ( its  a service scan)
>
> host           port  proto  name          state  info
> ----           ----  -----  ----          -----  ----
> 192.168.1.10   445   tcp    microsoft-ds  open   Samba smbd 3.X workgroup: SKYNET
> 192.168.1.100  445   tcp    microsoft-ds  open
> 192.168.1.11   445   tcp    netbios-ssn   open
> 192.168.1.2    445   tcp    microsoft-ds  open
> 192.168.1.22   445   tcp    microsoft-ds  open
> 192.168.1.4    445   tcp    microsoft-ds  open   Microsoft Windows 2003 or 2008
> 192.168.1.6    445   tcp    netbios-ssn   open
>
> Have  a nice day
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Eric,

Nmap provides a couple output formats in addition to the normal output. 
By using -oX, -oA, or -oG you can specify output files in these formats 
[1]. In particular, the XML output [2] generated by -oX contains all the 
results of the scan in a machine-readable format. Parsers for several 
major languages exist that would make it easy to generate the format you 
want.

Additionally, the reverse-index NSE script [3] gives another output 
format, listing every port number with the hosts that have it open.

Dan

[1] http://nmap.org/book/output.html
[2] http://nmap.org/book/output-formats-xml-output.html
[3] http://nmap.org/nsedoc/scripts/reverse-index.html
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