Using Qualys Virtual Scanner Appliance

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

Read more: http://avleonov.com/2016/09/01/using-qualys-virtual-scanner-appliance/