(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)
We want to leverage Bigfix Asset Discovery (nmap) for compliance reasons, but we are seeing two problems.
- We do not use reverse DNS PTR records for almost all of our machines so the hostname is not popping up in bigfix under “unmanaged assets”. I know you can pull this information on Windows machines using nmap using either one of these options:
–script nbstat.nse
-A
-sC
The problem is, the Bigfix import service does not pull this data into the Bigfix database.
- Is there any other way we can pull the hostname using the nmap command line options that will work with import service?
- Is there any way to customize how the import service works so we can import this data?
- We notice that the MAC address is not being populated on machines were we span subnets in scanning. I assume this is because nmap is leveraging arp for IP to MAC resolution for machines on the same subnet. By using the same nmap options above against a Windows machine, you get hostname, user, MAC, domain. These are all valuable data elements.
- Is there anyway to integrate this script scanning into the Bigfix nmap scanning process and import service process?