Post-launch Actions

Once launched, the Virtual Appliance connects to the Qualys Cloud Platform. This step registers the Virtual Scanner Appliance with your Qualys account. Also, your appliance downloads all the latest software updates immediately, ready for scanning.

Configure Security Lists for your Virtual Scanner Appliance

Setup following outbound rule in the security group assigned to the scanner appliance.

• If you are using a proxy server, then ensure you have an outbound rule allowing access on port 443 and the port used to communicate with a proxy server.
• If the scanner appliance has direct internet connectivity, then ensure an outbound rule allows access on port 443 to the Qualys Security Operations Center (SOC) IP address. You can get the SOC IP address range by logging in to Qualys and navigating to Help > About.
• The scanners should be able to reach out to all the target instances for running the scan. Configuring an outbound rule is recommended to allow access to all ports and subnets of the instances that the scanner scans.

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