Databases in Metasploit

In Kali Linux, we will have to set up a database before we use the database functionality.

How to do it...

The following steps demonstrate the setting up of a database:

1. First, we start the postgresql server using the following command:

service postgresql start

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

2. Then, we create the database and initialize it:

msfdb init

3. Once this is done, we load msfconsole. Now we can create and manage workspaces in Metasploit. A workspace can be considered a space where we can save all out Metasploit data with categorizations. To set up a new workspace, we use the following command:

workspace -a workspacename

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

4. To see all the commands related to the workspace, we can execute this:

        workspace -h 

5. Now that we have our database and workspace set up, we can use various commands to interact with the database.
6. To import an existing Nmap scan into our database, we...