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Cloud Agent requirements

Your hosts must be able to reach the Qualys Cloud Platform (or the Qualys Private Cloud Platform) over HTTPS port 443. Go to Help > About for details.

To install Windows Agent you must have local administrator privileges on your hosts.

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To install Linux Agent, BSD Agent, Unix Agent, MacOS Agent you must have elevated privileges on your hosts.

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Have AWS? No problem you can install the Cloud Agent in AWS. Read these instructions at our Community.

Steps to Install Agents

1) Create an activation key. This provides a way to group agents together and bind them to your account. Go to Activation Keys and click the New Key button, then Generate Key. Learn more

2) Our wizard will help you review requirements and download the agent installer to your local system. Want to do it later?

3) Run the installer on each host from an elevated command prompt, or use a systems management tool or Windows group policy.

Your agents should start connecting to our cloud platform. We would expect you to see your first asset discovery results in a few minutes. Click here to troubleshoot

4) Activate your agents for various capabilities like vulnerability scanning (VM), compliance scanning (PC), etc. Your options will depend on your account settings. Learn more

How do I check activation progress? It's easy go to the Agents tab and check agent activation jobs. Learn more