Moving ahead from our first recipe, we can now start working with Armitage once it is up and running. In this recipe, we will start with the most basic step of penetration testing, that is, scanning and information gathering. Let's perform an Nmap scan in Armitage and see what result is displayed on the GUI.
To launch an Nmap scan, you can click on Hosts and then Nmap Scan, as shown in the following screenshot. Let us do a quick operating system detection scan and see if any hosts are alive or not:
Giving a quick look at the Armitage window, there is a search panel on the left where we can search for all different modules present in the framework, which is not as easy when working with msfconsole. Further, we can see the MSF Console panel from where we can execute any Metasploit command that we have learned so far. So we have the power of both GUI, as well as the command line when we are working with Armitage.