cheops-agent8
Network monitor agent
Usage
cheops-agent [{-a | -n | -l}]
[-ps]
Overview
Cheops-agent is the agent used by cheops-ng (the GUI) to conduct the network discovery operations.
In order to run cheops-ng you need to first start up cheops-agent first and, when requested the IP address of the cheops server, introduce the IP address provided by the agent when it started up. If you run the agent and the GUI in the same system you can just use 127.0.0.1 as the IP address of the agent.
Cheops-agent needs to be run as root in order for it to call nmap and make use of raw sockets capabilities.
WARNING: This program has not been audited for security so running the agent in an untrusted network is not recommended. If you are running in an untrusted network use the -l option so that it can only be connected to by a GUI running on the same system.
Options
Cheops-agent uses some command line options.
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-a -
Listen using all methods.
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-n -
Listen using network method (IPv4, default).
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-l -
Only listen in the local (loopback) interfaces. Recommended method if you are running the agent and the GUI on the same system.
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-p -
Use passwords to authenticate clients.
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-s -
Use SSL when transfering information. Recommended if you also use
-p.