Scanning with Rainmap Lite

Rainmap Lite is a web application designed for running Nmap scans from any web browser. It was designed to be light and to depend on as few dependencies as possible. It is perfect for installing on a remote server and then just logging in from your phone and scheduling scans when you are on the road.

In this recipe, you will learn how to launch a Nmap scan using Rainmap Lite.

Getting ready

To run Rainmap Lite, we need to download the code and run the application as follows:

1. Grab the latest stable version of Rainmap Lite:

   $git clone https://github.com/cldrn/rainmap-lite.git

2. Install Django and the only project dependency, lxml:

   $ pip install Django
   $ pip install lxml

3. Change your working directory to the newly created folder and create the database schema:

   $python manage.py migrate

4. Load the default scanning profiles:

   $python manage.py loaddata nmapprofiles

5. Locate the nmaper-cronjob.py file and update it, and also adjust the notification...