The Network a Scanner is an internet protocol scanning software or program, which is used for analyzing the network. The network scanner is basically gives the rules or the course of action needed for identifying the active host on the network and it may be for the purpose of network security measurement or attacking them The network scanner can be used for monitoring or analyzing the large networks like the corporate networks with numerous numbers of computers and also a small home network with more than a few computers. This network scanner program can scan the list of computers or IP addresses as well as the range of the IP addresses.

The main advantage of this Network a Scanner is that the number of the subnets and the computers that needs to be analyzed is not limited. The network scanner will give you an idea about all the resources present in the network including the masked NETBIOS resources, web resources and the file transfer protocols. The network scanner can also be used by the small users to search for the necessary network resources in the network other than the network administrators for monitoring the network.
 
This network scanner not only scans the network to find the network resources and the computers connected to it but also checks the read/write access rights for the various computers connected to it. You can build the resources found in the network as a network drives or pen it in your browser or in an explorer and you may file results in the document form using the word file, HTML or XML for future references. The network scanner helps you in reducing the time and cost needed to monitor the network infrastructure.

The scanner in the network also has several methods such as port scans and ping sweeps, which are used to send back the information about which IP addresses location to the active host and also the about the host’s that are active on the net and they services they are using or offering to the network.  And another method of scanning in the network is inverse mapping, which gives the information about the hosts that are not located or mapped by the active host. The key feature of this network scanner is that no administrator privileges are needed for conducting the scanning process. Thus the use of network scanner in the network can be used to keep your network safe from hackers and other attackers.