@MISC{Finke99servicetrakmeets, author = {Jon Finke}, title = {ServiceTrak Meets NLOG/NMAP}, year = {1999} }
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Network port scanning tools can be helpful in mapping services and exposures, but in large environments you often get more information than you can handle. This paper describes a project to take the output from NMAP/NLOG and merge it with the existing enterprise host management system. This makes it simple for service or platform specific administrators to study the machines in their purview. 1 Introduction Due to some recent security problems at our site where a number of machines were cracked due to exposures in in.statd, we decided to step up our project of removing or disabling unneeded services on the workstations and servers maintained by our department. Unfortunately, the press of other projects prevented our system administrators responsible for the various operating system (AIX, Solaris, and IRIX) from working on the investigation. So rather than try to look at these systems from the inside, we decided to try looking at them from the "outside". NLOG and NMAP At about ...