Would it be possible to wrapper up nmap or another such open-source security scanner with a simple interface on the members page so that we could have an easy way to scan ourselves for vulnerabilities?

If so, could you also wrapper up something like Apache's ab to let us load-test machines from an independent host?

You can do it already: "nmap -v my.ipa.ddr.ess". I don't see much reason to wrap up a tool that is this simple. I see where you're going with this, though...


I don't like this idea very much. This is something that you can also run on your own. We'd need to have a source host at each datacenter to give good results. And running it from the Linode.com webserver would just generate extra load and bandwidth usage...

-Chris

I see; I forgot that there was multiple data centers and therefore more complexity than just wrapping it up.

The main reason why it's perhaps better to have an external nmap server is testing wrappered/filtered/firewalled/etc. ports, to make sure that the rules are properly applied.