Learn about the QGS Appliance
These are the steps to create your own QGS appliance from the QGS User Interface.
- Create a New Appliance. Give the appliance a name and enter a location, if desired.
- Generate a Personalization Code. Similar to the virtual scanner, you need to enter this Personalization Code in the QGS virtual appliance local user interface to fully configure the appliance.
- Select Download Image and chose the appropriate file format for your environment
- Download/copy the virtual appliance image to your virtualization server.
- Configure the Virtual Machine properties following the specified resources.
- A minimum disk size of 250GB is required.
- Only a single secondary virtual hard drive is recognized as available capacity; extending the second QGS volume via multiple virtual hard drives is not supported.
Enabling Patch Mode so that QGS can cache patches requires a second virtual hard drive to be added to the virtual appliance before Patch Mode can be enabled.
The third hard disk is not supported and would not be recognized on the CAMS/QGS appliance to use the patch mode. We recommend using only one extra hard disk of 150GB or more to use the patch mode.
- Start the image.
Console access to the running image is required to configure the appliance.
- Use the console-based user interface to configure the virtual appliance for networking, DNS, time server, and optional upstream proxy configuration (see instructions below).
- Validate that the appliance can successfully communicate with the Qualys Platform.
- Register the Appliance with the Qualys Platform.
The QGS Appliance supports a Diagnostic mode to help accelerate Qualys Customer Support troubleshooting and problem resolution, primarily for initial network setup and registration issues. Refer to the section below on Diagnostics Mode.
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