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As we can see there are two parts to IP Discovery.
1: ICMP Discovery:
ScanEngine will PING an given IP address and awaits an respond, if there is an Device capable to respond to PING ScanEngine will mark the IP in question as success and move to the second part of the IP Discovery.
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Based on the outcome of the Port scan we will "guess" what type of the Device it is and append an Suspected OS to it, if applicable or, if the certainty is high enough to guess the OS.
NOTE: As mentioned above we really guess the OS and that is due to fact that ScanEngine will NOT ATTEMPT to log in into the found Device.
How to set up an IP Discovery Project.
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2: In the Config navigate to part where appender-ref part is as shown bellow and comment out the part for <appender-ref ref="TargetFileAppender"/> shown in green.
NOTE: This is ordinary XML file format and there for XML stile is required.
</appender>
<root>
<level value="FATAL"/>
<!--<appender-ref ref="TargetFileAppender"/>-->
<appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender"/>
<appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender"/>
<appender-ref ref="TraceAppender"/>
<appender-ref ref="ContextAppender"/>
<appender-ref ref="EventLogAppender"/>
</root>
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- Lets add an Subnet we would like to scan, create a Sub-Location (One Location per ScanEngine) Details page can be left as is, Scan Window can be setup if needed. Target sets, click on Create
Choose Target as Device
Type as Subnet
Name is mandatory: We will use IPSubnet24 in this example.
Start IP will be Subnet first IP: 192.168.1.0 NOTE: https://kthx.at/subnetmask/ List of Subnets with all details
Subnet Mask Bits: 24
Click on Save & Close
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- Project Summary page will show how many Targets we setup to scan and how many Devices scan did find.
- Diagnostics page will show more details about each found device as shown bellow
3. Getting the results from the iQSonarSE DB.
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