Mastering Armitage, the graphical management tool for Metasploit
The newer versions of Metasploit utilize a graphical front end tool called Armitage. Understanding of Armitage is important because it ultimately makes your usage of Metasploit easier by providing information to you visually. It encompasses the Metasploit Console and, by using its tabbing capabilities, allows you to see more than one Metasploit Console or Meterpreter session at a time.
Getting ready
A connection to the Internet or internal network is required to complete this recipe.
How to do it...
Let's begin our review of Armitage:
From the desktop go to Start | Kali Linux | Exploitation Tools | Network Exploitation Tools | Armitage:
On the Armitage login screen, click on the Connect button:
It may take Armitage a while to connect to Metasploit. While this takes place, you may see the following notification window. Do not be alarmed. It will go away once Armitage is able to connect. On the Start Metaspoit? screen, click on Yes...
