Internal Scanner Appliance

When you launch or schedule a scan, you can select to scan models on the internal scanners, that is, scanners in your corporate network.

Internal scanners can scan public and private IPs.

While executing an API call to update the scheduled scan, if you do not provide any scanner appliance, the Qualys system uses an external scanner by default. If your target/asset group contains a combination of external and internal IPs, then you will encounter an error.

The private IP address range includes the following range:

10.0.0.0-10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0-192.168.255.255
240.0.0.0-255.255.255.255

You will only see the Scanner Appliance option if you have scanner appliances in your account. If this option does not appear, then your scans will use external scanners automatically.

Add a Scanner Appliance

You can add a scanner appliance using Qualys Vulnerability Management. For adding a scanner appliance, refer to the steps detailed in the following page:

Add a physical scanner appliance

Add a virtual scanner appliance

Add an offline scanner appliance