[brlug-general] Scheduled portscans and diffs

[Shannon Roddy]

Hi All,

I am looking for a tool (commercial, free/opensource, or otherwise)
that will automate port scans and then report differences from a
benchmark scan, last scan, etc.  Does anyone know of such a beast?

nmap is the defacto standard port scanner, but I am not opposed to
using something else if it has a comparable feature set and
reliability.  Before someone says write one, I just simply don't have
the time right now.  I know it isn't really that tough...  but I am
way oversubscribed.

I found nrun/ndiff and a few other tools that are relatively old and
tried a couple, but they seem to have issues with the current versions
of nmap.

One item that may have some promise is "inprotect".
http://inprotect.sourceforge.net//

presently though, I just need a simple tool that will give text based
output.  Later I may look at inprotect or some other tools.

Thanks,
Shannon