Agentless Tracking and Cloud Agents

If you are already using Agentless Tracking on hosts and now you want to install Cloud Agent on the same hosts, you should use the same host ID to avoid duplicate asset records. You can configure the location of the host ID file installed on your Solaris hosts with the recommended default of /etc (the agent creates/uses the qualys directory under /etc). This is recommended best practice if you are interested in using Solaris Agent and Agentless Tracking to evaluate the same host.

Once configured, our service accesses the same file with the same host ID tag when the host is evaluated using:

• Agentless Tracking AND
• Cloud Agent

Steps to Install Cloud Agents for Host with Agentless Tracking

1. Check your Unix authentication record
   This is the record you’re using to access the system using Agentless Tracking. You’ll see the location of the host ID file configured for the authentication record.
   
   Want help with Agentless Tracking? Log into the Qualys Cloud Platform, go to Help > Contact Support, and search for Agentless Tracking.
2. Install the Agent
   Use the agent configuration tool (qualys-cloud-agent.sh) and the HostIdSearchDir option to install the Solaris Agent and configure the location of the host ID file. Be sure this location matches the location defined in your authentication record. By default, HostIdSearchDir is set to /etc/. To stay consistent with the Agentless Tracking location, we appends /qualys/hostid to the path provided.
   
   Example - Install as root user and set host ID file to /mydir/qualys/hostid

$ /opt/qualys/cloud-agent/bin/qualys-cloud-agent.sh ActivationId="022224c8-31c7-11e5-b4f7-0021ccba987e" CustomerId="146556fa-31c7-11e5-87b6-0021ccba987e" HostIdSearchDir="/mydir/"