Cloud Agent Cloud Provider Metadata

Available starting with Cloud Agent Linux 1.7.0 and Cloud Agent Windows 1.6.0 releases, the Qualys Cloud Agent collects instance metadata from supported public cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Compute Platform.

The agent collects the instance metadata from the cloud provider's instance metadata web services, which are locally available from each running instance via HTTP as part of the agent's default inventory collection. The collected instance metadata is available in the Qualys AssetView module (Asset Details and new search tokens) and Asset Management API.

The following table presents the URLs that the Cloud Agent for Windows and Linux uses to fetch Cloud metadata using cloud APIs:

Cloud Provider

Windows

Linux

AWS

http://169.254.169.254/latest/
meta-data/instance-id

http://169.254.169.254/latest/

Azure

http://169.254.169.254/metadat
a/instance/compute?apiversion=2017-08-01

http://169.254.169.254/metadat
a/

GCP

http://metadata.google.internal
/computeMetadata/v1/instance
/id

http://metadata.google.internal
/computeMetadata/v1/

IBM

https://api.service.softlayer.co
m/rest/v3/SoftLayer_Resource_
Metadata/getId

https://api.service.softlayer.co
m/rest/v3/

OCI

http://169.254.169.254/opc/v2/i
nstance/id 

or

http://169.254.169.254/opc/v1/i
nstance/id

http://169.254.169.254/opc/v2/

ALIBABA

http://100.100.100.200/latest/m
eta-data/instance-id

http://100.100.100.200/latest/