Danny Sauer wrote:
Daniel wrote regarding '[SLE] Network Scanning' on Tue, Nov 02 at 13:30:
Hi everyone, I been searching for a tool/software that will scan our network and display information about the hosts it found. I am more interested on the Unix servers side. I will like to find them on the network and if possible to tell me which OS they are running. Additionally, if it could tell their patch level and if it is a new server that was just turn on (red color for new type of think).
nmap will take care of a large part of the scanning, and you can probably find some other tool that uses nmap's output to generate the pretty pictures you might want. Finding that's a task for freshmeat.net or google. :)
I use nessus (http://www.nessus.org/), it is aimed to be a security and vulnerability scanner - not exactly what you are looking for, but it may fit. Sample report: http://www.nessus.org/demo/third.html