Installation

This chapter explains the installation steps for Qualys Cloud Agent on the AWS Bottlerocket Container host.

Qualys provides installers and packages for each supported operating system coded for each Qualys platform. A Cloud Agent coded for one platform cannot be connected to another platform. Organizations can also use the Puppet automation tool to install the Qualys Cloud Agent on an AWS Bottlerocket Container host.

The platform supports the detection of duplicate agent IDs and automatically re-provisions the duplicate agents.

Customers using software distribution tools like Puppet, must package the Qualys-provided installer along with the associated Activation Key and Customer ID to install properly. Do not package up the artifacts that are installed by the agent into your own installer as the installation environment is keyed for that specific machine when the agent is installed; doing so will create duplicates that the platform may not be able to easily re-provision.

 Depending on your environment, you might need to take steps to support communications between agent hosts on your network and the Qualys Cloud Platform.