Azure Connector Work Process

Asset Discovery

The Azure connector performs asset discovery for your cloud with its continuous synchronization mechanism. The connector synchronizes every 4 hours with the Azure account and pulls in all virtual machines (After the connector runs, if a virtual machine is found as terminated, the connector stores such virtual machine with a DELETED state.).

Azure retains the terminated virtual machines for only about 15 minutes. However, Qualys retains records and details of all the terminated virtual machines.

Synchronization of Assets

Adds the assets to your Qualys account. Except for assets with errors (as such assets are dropped off), all other assets are added to the Qualys account.