Track Progress through the Qualys Scanner Console

Once the Virtual Scanner is activated successfully, you can track the progress via the Scanner Console available through VNC Viewer.

Connect to Scanner Console via VNC

To connect to the VNC console, you need to have a public or private key pair. Create a Console Connection and upload the public key, as shown in following image.
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Get the VNC Connection Details

Run the command provided in the popup on the host machine you have. Commands are provided both for Linux ( Terminal ) and Windows ( Windows Powershell ) machines.

 Ensure the private key is already loaded when running the provided command on the respective terminals.

command to connect with VNC

Provide localhost:5900 as the Address in order to view the VNC console. Here is an example of the console:

  localhost

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