cheops(8)

NAME

cheops-agent - network monitor agent

SYNOPSIS

cheops-agent [-a|-n|-l] [-ps]

DESCRIPTION

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.

-a Listen using all methods.

-n Listen using network method (IPv4, default).

-l Only listen in the local (loopback) interfaces.

Recommended method if you are running the agent and the GUI on

the same system.

-p Use passwords to authenticate clients.

-s Use SSL when transfering information. Recommended

if you also use -p

BUGS

Cheops-ng is beta software, and consequently still has

bugs and incomplete features.

If you have a bug report please prepare a message with the

following information:

Distribution

version of cheops-ng

detailed description of your problem (something de

scriptive enough to recreate the problem). This includes the con

tents of your config.log or output of make when you are trying to

compile cheops-ng

Check the forum at sourceforge.net (

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=17325 ) to see if

anyone else has had the same problem solved, if not then just

post your question so that others can get the benefit of the an

swer.

If you still have problems you can email Brent

Priddy at toopriddy at mailcity dot com

You can also send bug reports to the Debian maintainer of

this package using the Debian Bug Tracking System

(http://bugs.debian.org/) Suggestions and ideas for improving the

software are welcome.

SEE ALSO

cheops-ng(1), nmap(1)

Additional information at the main site:

http://cheops-ng.sourceforge.net (home page) and in the default

location for installed documentation in Debian:

/usr/shared/doc/cheops-ng/

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino

<jfs@computer.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be

used by others). because the original program did not have a

manual page.

Cheops-ng has been rewritten by Brent Priddy <tooprid

dy@mailcity.com> based on Cheops which was originally written by

Mark Spencer, and was sponsored greatly by Adtran, Inc.

Version 0.22 October 8th, 2005

CHEOPS(8)