NMapServ Overview


The NMapWin service is automatically installed whenever you install NMapWin. This service allows you to schedule scans of your network on a regular basis. The service runs as normal Windows/NT/2000/XP service. The service owner is the local system account.

All current settings are taken from the different NMapWin pages and stored in two registry keys. Each time the service starts it will read the current setting from the registry and will start to reschedule the processing. In case the keys are modified and stored into the registry, the nmap service will get notified and will relaunch the nmap scans. Therefore each change in the setting will be instantly transferd to the nmap service.

The actual nmap process is started as background process. At a given time only one nmap process can run in the background. Therefore, if the nmap process is about to start it first checks if there is already a nmap process running. In case this is true, the new nmap service is postphoned until the next scan time.

The registry keys are read each time the nmap service is about to start a new scan process. In case the setting has been changes since the last scan, the new values are read from the registry.

You should give a log file using the Ouput field on the files page (see Files Page for more details). The output is written log file, in Normal, HTML, XML orGrep format depending on the settings choosen on the Files Page. Use Append in order to append the output from each scan to the log file. See NMapWin manual page for details on the different output options.

Input file are supported as well. Put the network subnets you want to scan into a nmap input file. Set the input file on the Files Page (see Files Page for more details. For more detailed information on the syntax of the input file see NMapWin manual page


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