Zenmap Reference Guide (Man Page)

	Note
	This document describes the very latest version of Zenmap available from https://nmap.org/download.html. Please ensure you are using the latest version before reporting that a feature doesn't work as described.

Zenmap is a multi-platform graphical Nmap frontend and results viewer. Zenmap aims to make Nmap easy for beginners to use while giving experienced Nmap users advanced features. Frequently used scans can be saved as profiles to make them easy to run repeatedly. A command creator allows interactive creation of Nmap command lines. Scan results can be saved and viewed later. Saved scan results can be compared with one another to see how they differ. The results of recent scans are stored in a searchable database.

This man page only describes the few Zenmap command-line options and some critical notes. A much more detailed Zenmap User's Guide is available at https://nmap.org/book/zenmap.html. Other documentation and information is available from the Zenmap web page at https://nmap.org/zenmap/.

Any other arguments are taken to be the names of results files to open.

Like their authors, Nmap and Zenmap aren’t perfect. But you can help make them better by sending bug reports or even writing patches. If Nmap or Zenmap doesn’t behave the way you expect, first upgrade to the latest version available from https://nmap.org. If the problem persists, do some research to determine whether it has already been discovered and addressed. Try Googling the error message or browsing the nmap-dev archives at https://seclists.org/. Read this full manual page as well. If nothing comes of this, mail a bug report to <[email protected]>. Please include everything you have learned about the problem, as well as what version of Zenmap you are running and what operating system version it is running on. Problem reports and Zenmap usage questions sent to [email protected] are far more likely to be answered than those sent to Fyodor directly.

Code patches to fix bugs are even better than bug reports. Basic instructions for creating patch files with your changes are available at https://svn.nmap.org/nmap/HACKING. Patches may be sent to nmap-dev (recommended) or to Fyodor directly.

Zenmap was originally derived from Umit, an Nmap GUI created during the Google-sponsored Nmap Summer of Code in 2005 and 2006. The primary author of Umit was Adriano Monteiro Marques. When Umit was modified and integrated into Nmap in 2007, it was renamed Zenmap.