How to use Zenmap

Zenmap is the graphical interface of Nmap. It is open source and comes in the same installation package as Nmap:

Sometimes, working with command-line tools can be tedious for administrators, thus Zenmap acts as an alternate GUI option.

How do it...

Here are the steps:

1. Open Zenmap from the list of programs.
2. Enter the target to be scanned in the text field provided, as shown here:

3. Select Quick scan from the Profile drop-down list, as shown here:

4. This will perform a fast scan with the –F option, thereby giving results for the top 100 ports along with a detailed analysis in different tabs, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Ports/Hosts tab shows the various open ports along with the services...