Qualys - Remove IPs from Asset Group

Qualys - Remove IPs from Asset Group removes all Axonius IP addresses from a Qualys asset group for:

  • Assets returned by the selected query or assets selected on the relevant asset page.

Qualys asset groups contain a list of IP addresses that exist both in Axonius and in Qualys. This action removes these IP addresses from a specific asset group after selecting in the query assets that belong to that group.

See Creating Enforcement Sets to learn more about adding Enforcement Actions to Enforcement Sets.

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Required Fields

These fields must be configured to run the Enforcement Set.

  • Action name - The name of this Enforcement Action. The system sets a default name. You can change the name.
  • Configure Dynamic Values - Toggle on to enter a Dynamic Value statement. See Creating Enforcement Action Dynamic Value Statements to learn more about Dynamic Value statement syntax.
  • Use stored credentials from the Qualys Cloud Platform adapter - Select this option to use credentials from the adapter connection. By default, the first connection is selected.

    • When you select this option, the Select Adapter Connection drop-down becomes available. Select the adapter connection to use for this Enforcement Action.

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    To use this option, you must successfully configure a Qualys Cloud Platform adapter connection.

  • Group name - Name of the asset group in Qualys you want to remove the Axonius IP addresses from.

  • Compute Node - The Axonius node to use when connecting to the specified host. For more details, see Working with Axonius Compute Nodes.

Additional Fields

These fields are optional.

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Connection and Credentials

When Use stored credentials from the adapter is toggled off, some of the connection fields below are required to create the connection, while other fields are optional.

  • Qualys Cloud Platform Domain - The hostname of the Qualys API (for example, qualysapi.apps.qualys.com). For more details on how to determine your Qualys API URL, see Identify your Qualys platform.

  • User Name and Password - The credentials for a user account that has the Required Permissions to perform this Enforcement Action.

  • Verify SSL (optional) - Select whether to verify the SSL certificate of the server against the CA database inside of Axonius. For more details, see SSL Trust & CA Settings.


  • Use private IP addresses - Choose whether to add remove IP addresses from Qualys.

  • Use public IP addresses - Choose whether to remove public IP addresses from Qualys.

  • CIDR exclude list - Specify a comma-separated list of CIDRs to be excluded. Axonius will not remove from Qualys devices IP addresses in the IP range of the specified CIDRs.

  • Send all preferred IPs - Enable to send all the IPs provided in the query without any filtering.

  • Only send preferred IPs - Enable to send only the preferred IPs in the IP network. These are IPs that can be selected by the filters detailed above: only private IPs, only public IPs, or only IPs that don't appear in the CIDR exclude list.

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    To enable Only send preferred IPs, you must also enable Send all preferred IPs. However, Send all preferred IPs can be enabled independently.

  • IP Network - The IP address of the network that all the IPs in the related query should belong.

  • User Host Name - Select this to add the preferred hostname to the specified group.

APIs

Axonius uses the Qualys API.

Required Ports

Axonius must be able to communicate via the following ports:

  • 80
  • 443

Required Permissions

The stored credentials, or those provided in Connection and Credentials, must have permission to perform this Enforcement Action.


For more details about other Enforcement Actions available, see Action Library.