NI Scanner

NI Scaner is a tool for processing scan requests from NORDUnets Network Inventory (NI).

Currently it supports nmap scans of hosts. When run it will process all currently queued host scan requrests from NI.

Installation

1. Create a lib folder and add a __init__.py to the folder.
2. Symlinks for nerds

• producers/nmap_services_py/nmap_services_py.py into utils
• producers/nerds_utils/file.py and producers/nerds_utils/nerds.py into nerds_utils

3. Copy settings.conf.dist to settings.conf
4. Fill in settings

Usage

python ni_scanner.py -C settings.conf

Running tests

python -m unittest discover

License

NORDUnet License (3-clause BSD). See LICENSE.txt for more details.

TODO

• Daemonize?
  • http://www.jejik.com/articles/2007/02/a_simple_unix_linux_daemon_in_python/
  • https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-daemon/