Prior to installing and starting ScanFi in your enterprise, ensure that the following are taken care of :
The default listening port of ScanFi server is 6565 (https). If this port is occupied, you can either automatically proceed with the subsequent port 6566 or manually specify a port which is not occupied.
An internet connection, with a minimum speed of 56 kbps, should be available in the machine running the ScanFi server. This is to ensure that you receive updates of the latest vulnerabilities added to our Central Repository Server (CRS), hosted at our AdventNet site.
If you are using a proxy to connect to the Internet then the ScanFi proxy settings have to be configured in ScanFi server without fail during first login.
Nmap is a network port scanner and service detector offering stealth SYN scan, ping sweep, FTP bounce, UDP scan and operating system fingerprinting. For effective port scanning and OS detection, you need to separately install Nmap 3.55 or above. You can download the latest version of Nmap at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html
Note: Please ensure that 'nmap' executable is available in PATH while starting the server.
For Linux systems, after you have installed Nmap if you would like ScanFi to use Nmap OS Detection, do any of the following:
(or)
If you intend to run the ScanFi server in Linux OS, ensure that Samba-TNG software
(version 0.4 and above) is installed.
This software facilitates communication between the Linux server and target Windows
machines.
Useful while identifying missing patches in target Windows machine.
You can download the software from : http://download.samba-tng.org/tng
.
For more information on Samba-TNG, refer to : http://www.samba-tng.org
.
Note: Please ensure that SAMBA_HOME environment variable is pointing to the Samba TNG Home directory.
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