Nmap is the most powerful and preferred scanner for security professionals. The usage of Nmap varies from novice to an advanced level; we will analyze the various scan techniques in detail.
Port scanning—the Nmap way
Getting ready
You run Nmap directly from msfconsole, as you normally would from the command line. However, if you want to import the results into the Metasploit database, you need to run the Nmap scan using the -oX flag, followed by the desired filename to generate the XML output file, and then issue the db_import command to populate the Metasploit database.
