MSFConsole is one of the most efficient, powerful, and all-in-one centralized frontend interfaces for penetration testers to make the best use of the exploitation framework. To access msfconsole, navigate to Applications | Exploitation Tools | Metasploit or use the terminal to execute the following command:

# msfconsole

You will be dropped into an interactive console interface. To learn about all the available commands, you can type the following command:

msf> help

This will display two sets of commands; one set will be widely used across the framework, and the other will be specific to the database backend where the assessment parameters and results are stored. Instructions about other usage options can be retrieved through the use of -h, following the core command.

Let us examine the use of the show command as follows:

msf> show -h
[*] Valid parameters for the "show" command are: all, encoders, nops, exploits, payloads, auxiliary, plugins, options
[*] Additional module...