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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

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Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook

Overview of this book

Nmap is a well known security tool used by penetration testers and system administrators. The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) has added the possibility to perform additional tasks using the collected host information. Tasks like advanced fingerprinting and service discovery, information gathering, and detection of security vulnerabilities."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" will help you master Nmap and its scripting engine. You will learn how to use this tool to do a wide variety of practical tasks for pentesting and network monitoring. Finally, after harvesting the power of NSE, you will also learn how to write your own NSE scripts."Nmap 6: Network exploration and security auditing cookbook" is a book full of practical knowledge for every security consultant, administrator or enthusiast looking to master Nmap. The book overviews the most important port scanning and host discovery techniques supported by Nmap. You will learn how to detect mis-configurations in web, mail and database servers and also how to implement your own monitoring system. The book also covers tasks for reporting, scanning numerous hosts, vulnerability detection and exploitation, and its strongest aspect; information gathering.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Nmap 6: Network Exploration and Security Auditing Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Retrieving CouchDB database statistics


CouchDB HTTP servers can return statistics that are invaluable to system administrators. This information includes requests per second, sizes, and other useful statistics. Fortunately for us, Nmap provides an easy way of retrieving this information.

This recipe describes how to retrieve database statistics for CouchDB HTTP service by using Nmap.

How to do it...

Open your terminal and run Nmap with the following arguments:

# nmap -p5984 --script couchdb-stats 127.0.0.1 

The results will be included in the script output section:

PORT     STATE SERVICE 
5984/tcp open  httpd 
| couchdb-stats: 
|   httpd_request_methods 
|     PUT (number of HTTP PUT requests) 
|       current = 2 
|       count = 970 
|     GET (number of HTTP GET requests) 
|       current = 52 
|       count = 1208 
|   couchdb 
|     request_time (length of a request inside CouchDB without MochiWeb) 
|       current = 1 
|       count = 54 
|     open_databases (number of open databases...