What is Zenmap and How To Download, Install, and Use In Windows, Linux?
Zenmap is a free and open-source GUI designed to be used with Nmap. Zenmap is a multiplatform tool that supports Linux, Ubuntu, Mint, Kali, Fedora, CentOS. Windows, Mac OS X, BSD, etc. . .nmap is a very powerful tool for network scanning and vulnerability discovery but it is completely command-line based. Zenmap can be used by novice users to scan the network and discover vulnerabilities.
Download Zenmap For Windows
Windows version can be downloaded from following link.
Download Zenmap For Linux
Zenmap can be downloaded for different Linux distributions from following links
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Kali Packages
Fedora, RHEL, CentOS
For RPM or yum based distributions like Fedora, RHEL or CentOS following command can be used to install zenmap.
Download Zenmap For MacOS X
nmap MacOS X built provides the Zenmap GUI by default. So downloading the following nmap dmg package will also provide the Zenmap.
Zenmap GUI
Zenmap is GUI form of nmap and provides some input areas for parameters.
- Target is the remote target we want to scan. We can put a single of multiple targets like Nmap.
- The profile is the scan options like speed and detail which is preconfigured as Intense Scan in this example.
- The command is the command which will run in the command line and created with the given parameters.
- Scan will start the scan process.
Zenmap Portable Edition
As Nmap is a network scanner that requires privileges to install wincap or similar libraries to capture we need some rights to install and run it. So there is no Zenmap portable version that works properly.
Zenmap vs Nmap Commandline
Zenmap is just a GUI form that can be used by novice users. It completely uses Nmap command-line tool. So they do not have similarities or differences. They just complete each other.
Zenmap Commands
As Zenmap is a GUI tool it doesn’t provide any command-line support and just a form to convert given options to the Nmap command-line options.
Zenmap portable for windows
Nmap and Zenmap (the graphical front end) are available in several versions and formats. Recent source releases and binary packages are described below. Older version (and sometimes newer test releases) are available from the dist directory (and really old ones are in dist-old). For the more security-paranoid (smart) users, GPG detached signatures and SHA-1 hashes for each release are available in the sigs directory (verification instructions). Before downloading, be sure to read the relevant sections for your platform from the Nmap Install Guide. The most important changes (features, bugfixes, etc) in each Nmap version are described in the Changelog. Using Nmap is covered in the Reference Guide, and don’t forget to read the other available documentation, particularly the new book Nmap Network Scanning!
Nmap users are encouraged to subscribe to the Nmap-hackers mailing list. It is a low volume (7 posts in 2015), moderated list for the most important announcements about Nmap, Insecure.org, and related projects. You can join the 128,953 current subscribers (as of September 2017) by submitting your email address here:
You can also get updates from our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Nmap is distributed with source code under custom license terms similar to (and derived from) the GNU General Public License, as noted in the copyright page.
Microsoft Windows binaries
Please read the Windows section of the Install Guide for limitations and installation instructions for the Windows version of Nmap. You can choose from a self-installer (includes dependencies and also the Zenmap GUI) or the much smaller command-line zip file version. We support Nmap on Windows 7 and newer, as well as Windows Server 2008 and newer. We also maintain a guide for users who must run Nmap on earlier Windows releases..
The Nmap executable Windows installer can handle Npcap installation, registry performance tweaks, and decompressing the executables and data files into your preferred location. It also includes the Zenmap graphical frontend. Skip all the complexity of the Windows zip files with a self-installer:
We have written post-install usage instructions. Please notify us if you encounter any problems or have suggestions for the installer.
For those who prefer the command-line zip files (Installation Instructions; Usage Instructions), they are still available. The Zenmap graphical interface is not included with these, so you need to run nmap.exe from a DOS/command window. Or you can download and install a superior command shell such as those included with the free Cygwin system. Also, you need to run the Npcap and Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package installers which are included in the zip file. The main advantage is that these zip files are a fraction of the size of the executable installer:
Linux RPM Source and Binaries
Many popular Linux distributions (Redhat, Mandrake, Suse, etc) use the RPM package management system for quick and easy binary package installation. We have written a detailed guide to installing our RPM packages, though these simple commands usually do the trick: You can also download and install the RPMs yourself:
Mac OS X Binaries
Nmap binaries for Mac OS X (Intel x86) are distributed as a disk image file containing an installer. The installer allows installing Nmap, Zenmap, Ncat, and Ndiff. The programs have been tested on Intel computers running Mac OS X 10.8 and later. See the Mac OS X Nmap install page for more details. Users of PowerPC (PPC) Mac machines, which Apple ceased selling in 2006, should see this page instead for support information.
Source Code Distribution
This is the traditional compile-it-yourself format. The Nmap tarball compiles under Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and many UNIX platforms (Solaris, Free/Net/OpenBSD, etc.) It includes Zenmap, the GUI frontend.
Detailed Linux/BSD/Solaris compilation instructions and options are provided here, though this usually does the trick:
Most Mac OS X users install with our Mac installer, but we also provide Mac OS X source code compilation instructions.
If you are compiling Nmap anyway, you might prefer to get the very latest code from our SVN source code repository rather than downloading a tarball here.
Other Operating Systems
Many other operating systems support Nmap so well that I have no need to create and distribute binary packages myself. You can choose to use the packages below, or compile the source distribution, which is often newer. We have created installation pages for the following platforms:
Zenmap Portable Development Test 1
Application: ZenMap Portable
Category:Internet
Description: The popular port scanner, now packaged as a portable app.
Download ZenMap Portable Portable [10.1 MB download / 41.1 MB installed]
(MD5: 24e87e2355b73a5d3dfa607e7326d0f2)
Notes:
I need some string localized, and some more genral information on Zenmap. At some point, I’ll be working on a packaging of Wireshark, so these strings will also be needed for that.
- I’m pretty sure it has been localized, but can anyone who is not a native speaker of english confirm this? If so, how do you get it into your native language?
- I need these two strings localized, after we’ve confirmed the wording with JTH. If anything is confusing or could be worded better, speak up please.
- LangString LauncherNeedsAdmin $
«You need to Administrative rights to install the WinPCap driver for $ to function properly. Please relaunch $ with Administrative rights on this computer.» - LangString InstallPCapDrivcer $
«If you want to use $ ,you will need to install the WinPcap.\nIt will be uninstalled when you exit $ .\n\nDo you want to install WinPcap?»
- LangString LauncherNeedsAdmin $
- I’m sorry about the whole PCap install thing, I know its not «really» portable. But, this is the best way I know how to handle the situation.
- Remember, I need your support if you want to see this on the Applications page!
Release Notes:
Development Test 1 (30JUN09): Initial release
Support Discontinued(Apr 10,2010)- Due to my inability to get around to updating this, I’m dropping it for now. I doubt anyone will notice, but this version seems to be stable by all accounts. You can try posting, but I can’t guarantee a response.