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Cloud Agent Metadata

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/