Saving and loading scan results
To save scan results to a file, first select the scan tab containing
the scan you wish to save, then choose
“Save Scan” from the
“Scan” menu. The
ctrl+S keyboard
shortcut does the same thing. Results are saved in
Umit Scan
Results (.usr
) format, which is similar to Nmap
XML output but contains additional information about the scan, such as
the name of the profile used. Recall that the -oX
option makes command-line Nmap produce XML output, as in nmap
-oX results.xml localhost.
Saved results are loaded by choosing
“Open Scan” from the
“Scan” menu, or by typing the
ctrl+O keyboard
shortcut. Zenmap can load Umit Scan Results
(.usr
) and Nmap XML output files. Once loaded,
the scan results are displayed as if a scan had just finished. Newly
opened scan results are placed in a new tab so any other scan results
that may be open are not overwritten.
The recent scans database
All recent scans, whether they are saved to a file or not, are
stored in a database. This allows easy searching of recent scans
without requiring that the results of every scan be saved to a file.
The database is stored in a file called
zenmap.db
and its location is
platform-dependent; see the section called “Files used by Zenmap” By default,
scans are kept in the database for 60 days and then removed. This
time interval can be changed in the search interface (see the section called “Searching through results”) or by modifying the value of the
save_time
variable in the
[search]
section of
zenmap.conf
(see the section called “Description of zenmap.conf
”).