Hello,
Two questions which hopefully the community will be able to help with:
1.) If we were to deploy Cloud Agent using just the Asset Inventory function to all our assets, is there an easy way to select say 1,000 assets to enable VM (or other) module post Cloud Agent install?
2.) Is there an easy way to change what Activation Key a Cloud Agent uses, or is it a uninstall / re-install job?
Thank you in advance.
if you want to activate a certain number of assets for VM or PC then it depends whether you want to activate exactly 1000 (as in your example) or not. If you want exact numbers there is imho no easy way using the UI. If you want to enable just a couple of assets you might want to play around with a query that uses something like
lastCheckedIn:[now-2h ... now]
as agents typically call in every 4h per default it should be relatively easy to meet your number approximately by manipulating that query (all your agents should call in a period of 4+h approximately)
If you want to activate exaclty 1000 you could use the api by first listing agents and limiting that to 1000 (see API guide about how to do that) and then activate those from the list in bulk (again see API guide)
for your second question: This is not possible at the moment but starting from cloud agent for Windows 3.1 baseline support to do that is present, but requires a platform update. And unfortunately I don't know in which release of the platform that support will be included. Ask your TAM for details
Thank you for that answer.
I have a follow up one if I may.
Is it possible within the Qualys platform to script which Cloud Agent assets have VM (or other module) enabled?
For example, say all assets with tag of "Domain Controller" should have VM enabled.
Kind regards
use the "bulk activation" feature of the API to directly all agents with a specific tag set.
if you want to activate a certain number of assets for VM or PC then it depends whether you want to activate exactly 1000 (as in your example) or not. If you want exact numbers there is imho no easy way using the UI. If you want to enable just a couple of assets you might want to play around with a query that uses something like
lastCheckedIn:[now-2h ... now]
as agents typically call in every 4h per default it should be relatively easy to meet your number approximately by manipulating that query (all your agents should call in a period of 4+h approximately)
If you want to activate exaclty 1000 you could use the api by first listing agents and limiting that to 1000 (see API guide about how to do that) and then activate those from the list in bulk (again see API guide)
for your second question: This is not possible at the moment but starting from cloud agent for Windows 3.1 baseline support to do that is present, but requires a platform update. And unfortunately I don't know in which release of the platform that support will be included. Ask your TAM for details