Nipper-ng Package Description

Nipper-ng is the next generation of nippper, and will always remain free and open source. This software will be used to make observations about the security configurations of many different device types such as routers, firewalls, and switches of a network infrastructure. This is a fork from nipper 0.11.10 release of the GNUv3 GPL code.

Source: https://code.google.com/p/nipper-ng/
Nipper-ng Homepage | Kali Nipper-ng Repo

• Author: Ian Ventura-Whiting (Fizz)
• License: GPLv3

Tools included in the nipper-ng package

nipper – Device security configuration review tool

[email protected]:~# nipper --help
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                           Version 0.11.10
                     http://nipper.titania.co.uk
             Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Ian Ventura-Whiting

Nipper is a  Network Infrastructure  Configuration Parser.  Nipper takes
a network infrastructure  device configuration,  processes the  file and
details security-related  issues with detailed  recommendations.  Nipper
was previous known as CiscoParse.

By default, input is retrieved from stdin and is output (in HTML format)
to stdout.

Command:
    nipper [Options]

General Options:
    --input=<file>
    Specifies a  device configuration  file to  process.  For CheckPoint
    Firewall-1 configurations, the input should be the conf directory.

    --output=<file> | --report=<file>
    Specified an output file for the report.

    --csv=<file>
    Want to output the network filtering configuration to a CSV file?.

    --version
    Displays the program version.

Example:
    The  example   below  will   process  a   Cisco   IOS-based   router
    configuration file called ios.conf  and output  the report to a file
    called report.html.

    nipper --ios-router --input=ios.conf --output=report.html

For additional help:
    --help[=<topic>]
    Show  the  online help  or show  the  additional  help on  the topic
    specified.  The help  topics  are;  GENERAL,  DEVICES,  DEVICES-ADV,
    SNMP,  REPORT, REPORT-ADV,  REPORT-SECT, REPORT-HTML,  REPORT-LATEX,
    AUDIT-ACL, AUDIT-PASS, AUDIT-ADV or CONFIG-FILE.

nipper Usage Example

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