Installation
This chapter helps you with the installation steps of Qualys Cloud Agent on GCP Container Optimized OS.
Qualys provides installers and packages for each supported operating system that are coded for each Qualys Cloud Platform. A Cloud Agent coded for one platform cannot be connected to another platform.
The Qualys Cloud Platform supports the detection of duplicate agent IDs and automatically re-provisions the duplicate agents.
Customers using software distribution tools must package the Qualys-provided installer along with the specific Activation Key and Customer ID strings to install properly. Do not package the artifacts 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 creates duplicates that the platform may not be able to easily remove.
Depending on your environment, you might need to take steps to support communications between agent hosts on your network and the Qualys Cloud Platform.