Alibaba Cloud Deployment Guide

This deployment guide contains the information for deploying, interacting, and configuring Centralized Appliance Management Service (CAMS) QGS Appliance on Alibaba Cloud.

Prerequisites

• You need an active Alibaba account to set up CAMS QGS.
• Ensure to cover the minimum system requirements recommended in the Qualys Gateway Service User Guide.

Steps to Configure the CAMS Appliance

1. Launch QGS from the Alibaba Marketplace
2. Access the Serial Console
3. Add a Secondary Hard Disk to use Patch Mode

Launch QGS from the Alibaba Marketplace

1. Click Create Instance from the home page, or navigate to ECS (Elastic Compute Service).
2. In the left navigation pane, click Instances.
3. Click Create Instance.
4. Select the billing method supported by your organization.
5. Select the region in which you want to deploy the appliance.
6. Configure the network settings as required for your environment. For supported configurations, see the QGS User Guide.
   
7. Select an instance type with 4 CPUs and 16 GB RAM. Refer to the QGS User Guide for supported system requirements.
   
8. Select the QGS appliance image from the marketplace.
   
9. Keep the primary disk size set to 40 GB. For disk requirements, see the QGS User Guide.
   
10. Assign a public IP address, if required. This step is optional.
11. Select a new/existing security group and allow the following ports.
12. Select an existing security group and allow the following ports:
    • SSH: 22
    • Tunnel port: 1080 (default)
    • Cache port: 8080 (default)
    
13. Set the key pair as None.
14. In Advanced Settings, enter a name for the instance.
15. Accept the terms and conditions, and then click Create Order.
16. After the order is submitted successfully, a confirmation message is displayed.
    
    

How to access the serial console

This section explains how to access the QGS appliance text-based interface by using the Alibaba Cloud serial console.

1. Click the ID of the created instance to open the instance details page.
2. Click All Actions, and then select VNC Connection to access the serial console.
   
3. The appliance text-based UI is displayed in the console.
   

For network configuration and appliance registration steps, see the QGS User Guide.

How to attach a secondary disk to enable patch mode

This section describes how to create and attach a secondary disk required for cache and patch mode operations.

1. Before attaching the secondary disk, shut down the appliance.
2. From the left navigation pane, click Block Storage.
   
3. Click Create Cloud Disk.
4. In the Attach section, select Not Attach.
5. Select the region where the appliance is deployed.
6. Select the availability zone based on your subscription.
7. Select the billing method based on your subscription.
8. Select the disk category and specify a size of 150 GB, which is the minimum requirement for a secondary disk. Refer to the QGS User Guide for supported configurations.
9. Enter a name for the secondary disk, if required.
10. Accept the terms and conditions.
11. Click Create Order.
    
    
12. After the disk is created successfully, verify that it appears in the disk list.
    
13. Click Attach from the actions column.
14. From the Destination Instance list, select the QGS appliance instance.
    
15. Click Next. When the disk status changes to In Use, close the dialog.
    
16. Start the appliance and wait approximately 30 minutes for the system to detect the secondary disk.
17. After the disk is detected, follow the QGS User Guide to enable cache or patch mode.