AdventNet SecureCentral™ ScanFi 4

README

Welcome to AdventNet SecureCentral™ ScanFi 4

ScanFi is a centralized, web-based, non-intrusive vulnerability-assessment software for detecting your weakest link , and that might well be the health of the assets in an enterprise, by scanning IPs for vulnerabilities across heterogeneous network infrastructure comprising switches, routers and operating systems such as Windows and Linux .

System Requirements

The minimum requirements for the system on which ScanFi needs to be installed are given below :

Hardware	Operating Systems	Web-Client
Processor 1.8 GHz Pentium® processor RAM 512 MB Hard Disk* 200 MB for product 10 GB for database	Windows 2000 Server / Professional Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Professional Red Hat Linux 7.2 Red Hat Linux 8.0 Red Hat Linux 9.0 Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 & 3.0 Red Hat Enterprise Server 2.1 & 3.0 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody)	HTML client requires one of the following browsers** to be installed in the system: IE 5.5 and above (on Windows) Mozilla 1.5 and above (on Windows and Linux) Firefox 1.0 and above (on Windows and Linux) ScanFi is optimized for 1024 x 768 resolution and above.

The system in which ScanFi server is installed should have access to the Internet, with minimum connection speed of 56 kbps.

* - Hard Disk space requirement is dependent on the number of scans stored in the ScanFi server.
** - Browsers must have JavaScript and Cookies enabled.

ScanFi - Startup / Shutdown

ScanFi product comes as zipped file for Windows and Linux.

Please refer the ScanFi Server Startup and Shutdown section of the user guide.

Recommended Additional Software

Nmap
Nmap is a network port scanner and service detector offering stealth SYN scan, ping sweep, FTP bounce, UDP scan and operating system fingerprinting. For effective port scanning and OS detection, you need to separately install Nmap 3.55 or above. You can download the latest version of Nmap at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/nmap_download.html
Note: Please ensure that 'nmap' executable is available in PATH while starting the server.

For Linux systems, after Nmap installation if you want ScanFi to use Nmap OS Detection, do any of the following:
- Run the ScanFi server as super user
- Follow the below steps, after reading the Nmap man page available at http://www.insecure.org/nmap/data/nmap_manpage.html :
Samba-Tng

You can download the software from : http://download.samba-tng.org/tng .

For more information on Samba-TNG, refer to : http://www.samba-tng.org .

Note: Please ensure that SAMBA_HOME environment variable is pointing to the Samba TNG Home directory.

Uninstalling ScanFi Server

You just need to remove the ScanFi folder to uninstall Scanfi from the system.

Help

Please refer to User Guide for any product specific help.

Troubleshooting Tips

Please refer to Troubleshooting Tips section of our User Guide

Contact Us

Website: http://www.scanfi.com
Support e-mail id: support@scanfi.com
Online Demo: https://demo.scanfi.com
User Forums: ScanFi Forum