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Reformatted scan help message
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davidallendj committed Aug 9, 2024
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var scanCmd = &cobra.Command{
Use: "scan urls...",
Short: "Scan to discover BMC nodes on a network",
Long: "Perform a net scan by attempting to connect to each host and port specified and getting a response. " +
"Each host is passed *with a full URL* including the protocol and port. Additional subnets can be added " +
"by using the '--subnet' flag and providing an IP address on the subnet as well as a CIDR. If no CIDR is " +
"provided, then the subnet mask specified with the '--subnet-mask' flag will be used instead (will use " +
"default mask if not set).\n" +
"Similarly, any host provided with no port with use either the ports specified" +
"with `--port` or the default port used with each specified protocol. The default protocol is 'tcp' unless " +
"specified. The `--scheme` flag works similarly and the default value is 'https' in the host URL or with the " +
"'--protocol' flag.\n" +
"If the '--disable-probe` flag is used, the tool will not send another request to probe for available. " +
"Redfish services. This is not recommended, since the extra request makes the scan a bit more reliable " +
Long: "Perform a net scan by attempting to connect to each host and port specified and getting a response.\n" +
"Each host is passed *with a full URL* including the protocol and port. Additional subnets can be added\n" +
"by using the '--subnet' flag and providing an IP address on the subnet as well as a CIDR. If no CIDR is\n" +
"provided, then the subnet mask specified with the '--subnet-mask' flag will be used instead (will use\n" +
"default mask if not set).\n\n" +
"Similarly, any host provided with no port with use either the ports specified\n" +
"with `--port` or the default port used with each specified protocol. The default protocol is 'tcp' unless\n" +
"specified. The `--scheme` flag works similarly and the default value is 'https' in the host URL or with the\n" +
"'--protocol' flag.\n\n" +
"If the '--disable-probe` flag is used, the tool will not send another request to probe for available.\n" +
"Redfish services. This is not recommended, since the extra request makes the scan a bit more reliable\n" +
"for determining which hosts to collect inventory data.\n\n" +
"Examples:\n" +
// assumes host https://10.0.0.101:443
" magellan scan 10.0.0.101\n" +
// assumes subnet using HTTPS and port 443 except for specified host
" magellan scan http://10.0.0.101:80 https://user:[email protected]:443 http://172.16.0.105:8080 --subnet 172.16.0.0/24\n" +
// assumes hosts http://10.0.0.101:8080 and http://10.0.0.102:8080
" magellan scan 10.0.0.101 10.0.0.102 https://172.16.0.10:443 --port 8080 --protocol tcp" +
" magellan scan 10.0.0.101 10.0.0.102 https://172.16.0.10:443 --port 8080 --protocol tcp\n" +
// assumes subnet using default unspecified subnet-masks
" magellan scan --subnet 10.0.0.0" +
" magellan scan --subnet 10.0.0.0\n" +
// assumes subnet using HTTPS and port 443 with specified CIDR
" magellan scan --subnet 10.0.0.0/16" +
" magellan scan --subnet 10.0.0.0/16\n" +
// assumes subnet using HTTP and port 5000 similar to 192.168.0.0/16
" magellan scan --subnet 192.168.0.0 --protocol tcp --scheme https --port 5000 --subnet-mask 255.255.0.0" +
" magellan scan --subnet 192.168.0.0 --protocol tcp --scheme https --port 5000 --subnet-mask 255.255.0.0\n" +
// assumes subnet without CIDR has a subnet-mask of 255.255.0.0
" magellan scan --subnet 10.0.0.0/24 --subnet 172.16.0.0 --subnet-mask 255.255.0.0 --cache ./assets.db",
" magellan scan --subnet 10.0.0.0/24 --subnet 172.16.0.0 --subnet-mask 255.255.0.0 --cache ./assets.db\n",
Run: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) {
// add default ports for hosts if none are specified with flag
if len(ports) == 0 {
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scanCmd.Flags().StringVar(&protocol, "protocol", "tcp", "Set the default protocol to use in scan. (default is 'tcp')")
scanCmd.Flags().StringSliceVar(&subnets, "subnet", nil, "Add additional hosts from specified subnets to scan.")
scanCmd.Flags().IPMaskVar(&subnetMask, "subnet-mask", net.IPv4Mask(255, 255, 255, 0), "Set the default subnet mask to use for with all subnets not using CIDR notation.")
scanCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableProbing, "disable-probing", false, "disable probing found assets for Redfish service(s) running on BMC nodes")
scanCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableCache, "disable-cache", false, "disable saving found assets to a cache database specified with 'cache' flag")
scanCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableProbing, "disable-probing", false, "Disable probing found assets for Redfish service(s) running on BMC nodes")
scanCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&disableCache, "disable-cache", false, "Disable saving found assets to a cache database specified with 'cache' flag")

viper.BindPFlag("scan.hosts", scanCmd.Flags().Lookup("host"))
viper.BindPFlag("scan.ports", scanCmd.Flags().Lookup("port"))
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