Proxy Configuration

By default, Qualys Cloud Agent connects to Qualys Cloud Platform in non-proxy mode. However, you can configure the proxy for Qualys Cloud Agent in etc/environment directory. Qualys Cloud Agent supports the following three proxies.

• http_proxy=https://[<username>:<password>@]<host>[:<port>]
• https_proxy=https://[<username>:<password>@]<host>[:<port>]
• qualys_https_proxy=https://[<username>:<password>@]<host>[:<port>]

You have to specify <username> and <password>, if https_proxy uses authentication. If special characters are embedded in the username and password (e.g. @, :, $) they need to be URL-encoded. The <host> is the proxy server's IPv4 address or FQDN and <port> is the proxy's port number.

 Use the https_proxy environment variable to configure the proxy for all cloud agent commands. However, use the qualys_https_proxy environment variable in proxy configuration to ensure that Cloud Agent communicates with only Qualys Cloud Platform.