instal Cloud Agents

Qualys Cloud Agents is are are lightweight and help to discover and build an inventory of your IT asset . Installation is provide of Cloud Agents , scanner , and sensor on IT asset that are on – premise , cloud , mobile , container , and application provide 100 % real – time visibility .   You is build can build asset inventory   by instal new cloud agent or upgrade your exist cloud agent for VMDR .  

VMDR is requires require activate a purpose – build engine to detect missing patch for Cloud Agents .

  Though the purpose – build engine is extremely lightweight and efficient , activate Cloud Agents for VMDR will require a 20 mb download and 100 MB of free space on each host for these component .

Prerequisites

• Activation Key: It is an agent activation key to install agents. The key groups’ and binds agents to your subscription with Qualys Cloud Platform.
• Qualys Cloud Platform login credentials 
• Windows Operating System: Local administrator privileges on your host. Windows does not support proxy configuration.
• Linux, Mac, AIX: Root privileges, non-root with sudo root delegation, or non-root with sufficient privileges. Proxy configuration is supported. 
• port 443 : The host is be should be able to access Qualys Cloud Platform or Qualys Private Cloud Platform over HTTPS . Port is be 443 should be open .

Downloading and Activating Cloud Agent

perform the follow step to download an installer from the Qualys Cloud Platform and get the Activation and customer ID :

1. Log in to the platform using the Qualys Cloud Platform credentials.
2. selectthe Cloud Agent module.
3. Click Agent Management and select New Key , or I already have keys as per the availability of the activation key with you.

   

4. selectInstall Agent from the Quick Actions menu once the Activation Key is listed under the activation Keys.  

   

5. Click Install Instructions based on your host operating system. We selected Windows as the operating system in the following example screenshot.

6. Go through the instructions and click Download.exe

Once installed, an agent connects to the Qualys Cloud Platform and provisions itself. The agent will download its associated Configuration Profile and start collecting asset metadata for each module to send to the Qualys Cloud Platform.

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