Mastering Metasploit - Third Edition

Using inline handler and renaming jobs

Metasploit offers a quick way to set up handlers using the handler command, as shown in the following screenshot:

We can see that we can define the payload using the -p switch and host and port with the -H and -P switches. Running the handler command will quickly spawn a handler as a background job. Speaking of background jobs, they too can be renamed using the rename_job command, as shown in the following screenshot: