In a previous post about Qualys VM I mentioned Qualys Scanner Appliances, which you can use to scan hosts inside your network. Let’s see how to configure and use them.
To add new Appliance go to https://qualysguard.qualys.eu/fo/tools/scannerAppliances.php and press “New”. You can choose a Scanner Appliance (Hardware) or Virtual Scanner Appliance. For testing I would like to have an appliance in form of VirtualBox virtual machine, so I choose “Virtual Scanner Appliance”.
Setup wizard appeared:
I clicked on Download Image Only.
Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance supports variety of virtualization platforms:
- Standard (OVA)
- OpenStack
- VMware vApp
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Amazon HVM Machine Image (Pre-Authorized Scanning)
- Amazon HVM Machine Image
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace Image
- Google Compute Cloud Image
I choose standard distribution package for this target platforms:
- VMware vSphere: vCenter Server, ESXi
- VMware Workstation, Player, Workstation Player, Fusion
- Oracle VM VirtualBox
- Citrix XenServer