Change Cloud Agent Configuration

Agents have a default configuration, which controls their behavior. You can change agent configuration by creating configuration profiles and changing the order in which they are applied.

The Initial Profile is the default profile with configuration settings provided by Qualys. This is assigned to agents by default at the time of installation.

 Double-click Initial Profile to view the default settings provided by Qualys.

Profile settings impact many agent behaviors, such as how and when the agent collects metadata, when it should sync with the cloud platform, when to do self-updates, tuning of performance and bandwidth utilization, etc. You can create custom profiles and assign them to agent hosts.

Best Practices: You might want to assign different agent configurations for different parts of your network infrastructure, such as laptops, servers, desktops, and data centers. Tag your agent hosts according to your groupings and assign these tags to different configuration profiles.