Zenmap Reviews

Zenmap serves as the official graphical interface for Nmap, exposing all command-line functionality through an intuitive desktop application. The cross-platform compatibility ensures consistent deployment across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.

Profile management streamlines recurring scans by storing configurations as reusable templates. The Command Creator pane provides real-time CLI translation, making it an effective learning tool for transitioning from GUI to command-line workflows.

Easy to use, you can get a lot of information from the scans and there's a big community ready to help with the commands if required.

It's hard to understand at the beginning. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to give you simple scans and sometimes it does bring you all the information

It helped me descovering and understanding my network and my communication with all my devices across my infrastructure.

Zenmap is a relatively simple tool to use; select your target and the scans you want to perform against it. I can scan for open ports and see which services are running on them. I can also check for malware using scripts from the NSE. Its vulnerability scanning is excellent in identifying vulnerable systems for patching. With Zenmap, you can scan for vulnerabilities, see where they are within your network or devices, and begin patching them. I like that I can scan different or specific systems without having to sit directly in front of them which to me is one of the best things anout Zenmap.

The scan result can be a little difficult to read and understand. Also, it would be nice if Zenmap could download the updates or patches needed for the vulnerabilities found and install them.

Scan your network devices only. If you are using this professionally, ensure you have written permission to use the tool, clearly identify devices for scanning, and remember that ISP modems do not belong to the organization. Hence, don't scan them

A benefit to having Zenmap is that you can use it to uncover vulnerabilities within the environment. If you can reach a certain port you can see which service is occupying it and take the necessary action if needed. There is also the benefit of using more advanced features in the NSE for malware scanning, you can also write your own scripts with this feature and share with others.

Zenmap is the GUI based rather then Cmd line based which makes you use for port scanning. It had all available facility to scan network related parameters

Need to add more and more features to analysis

I was using nmap then moved to Zenmap and I am using as port of port scanning as initial stages of my projects.

The GUI covers everything you need to analyse your entire local area network. It also helps visualize the topology and clearly shows all sophisticated and verbose findings for hosts and devices in the network.

The GUI can get pretty non-responsive and the included NPCAP compatibility adapter can interrupt your internet supply due to conflicting metrics but that can be fixed manually.

Networking monitoring tools can be vast and expensive and hard to set up. So, if you're looking for an on-the-go solution for your company's network, without spending unnecessary resources, Zenmap might be the best choice for you.

I am a local IT Network admin and need to often verify the visibility of networking devices and hosts running in our private network. Zenmap is one of the most inexpensive and simple GUI tool for NMAP to diagnose all the layered changes that my team makes to the network visually.

I love Zenmap. I use it all of the time to monitor network traffic, and I can see computer, cellphone, and laptop traffic all from one screen.

Sometimes I wish the GUI was a little more intuitive, but once you get used to it, it is really quite easy.

This is a great little tool that packs a load of information for monitoring your network. It is super easy to use and pretty easy to learn.

I can quickly identify the packet type and shut down usage from one simple interface. I love how easy it is to install and use. I thought the app would take up more space on my HD, but it is so light and nimble.

The ease of use and power of this network scanner. Learning to use the tool in a cursory manner is relatively easy, which makes getting started with it extremely simple and straightforward.

There is a bit of a learning curve to go from novice to power user. Once you want to delve deeper into what can be done with this tool, it takes quite a bit of further understanding - not as simple and easy as starting off.

Network discovery, mapping of the network, asset enumeration. Benefits are validating addresses of known servers, etc. as well as discovering and locating unknown or previously unidentified resources on the network. It also helps to understand the underlying connections present in the network as a whole.

One of the best tools to discover devices in your network. Zenmap can do everything that Namp can do but with a nice user-friendly graphical user interface.

With the help of Zenmap, it is really easy get an understanding about your organization network topology even if you are a new system admin.

Operating System detection is not functioning very well, sometime Zenmap displays wrong OS names.

The main thing is the user interface is simple and straightforward. Also, it is the official GUI app for the Nmap. Different profiles can be set, and search results can be saved for later review. Different keyboard shortcut keys can be fixed.

Sometimes Zenmap cannot identify precisely what operating systems are running.

I basically use Zenmap for port scanning and network mapping. Also, it helps me to identify what hosts are in the network. So I can get a clear picture of what is happening in the network.

It can draw "automatically" and without user interaction a full network topology with hosts status and "virtual" link between hosts, very useful to create network diagram and to see daily changes inside your network.

No script library available, to make vulnerabilities assessments you have to download external script without security checks available.

Create and print four network diagram of four different subnets to use in Zabbix for real time host monitoring map features.