This is the ninth in a series of tips on how to use Nmap in an enterprise network environment. For a security tool to be useful you have to be able to understand what it's telling you about the setup, security, or weak points of your system or network. With Nmap you can run very comprehensive tests. To analyze the results it is often best to have the output recorded in XML format so that it can be easily imported into a database or converted into HTML for analysis and human consumption.

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