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  • 1. How do I do auto-discovery?
  • 2. Does Nets work on Mac OS X (Darwin)

    1. How do I do auto-discovery?

    Auto-discovery is the process of adding or updating entries to your Nets database based on the actual devices in your network. Nets has an optional package called nmap_discover that supports auto-discovery in UNix platforms. It uses and imports information from a third party tool called nmap. Nmap is a freely available network scanner, see http://www.insecure.org/nmap. You can run nmap on the network or networks that you wish to add to yer Nets database. Nmap will probe for all the devices on that network, make a guess about the operating system on each device, and produce a log file. The Nets nmap_discover package can then read the log file and use it to create any ADDRESS, DEVICE, INTERFACE and SOFTWARE records that are not already in your database.
    • Install the nmap_discover package in the packages area of your Nets home directory (typically /usr/local/nets/packages)
    • Stop and restart Nets so the namp_discover plugin becomes available.
    • Download, build and install nmap
    • Run nmap on the network you are interested in, eg: nmap -O 203.63.154.* >nmap.log
    • Run Nets->File->Autodiscovery from nmap log file ...
    • Select the nmap.log file you created above.

    2. Does Nets work on Mac OS X (Darwin)

    Yes.

    Perl 5.6.0 comes with Darwin, but to use Nets, you will need to build and install Tk 800.023 or later. You must follow these instruction to build Perl TK successfully. Note especially the need to alter the perl optimise level.

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