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How to force Intel Agents to conduct a new scan?

How to force intel agents to conduct a new scan, before the 4-hour auto scan.

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Written by Vincent Priestley
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If you need to force a scan from your intel agents here is a guide on how to do it.

Windows โ€“ Make sure that you run the following command on each device individually and keep them connected to the Internet for about 2-4 hours. This command will activate a new scan on the hosts and after 2 hours weโ€™ll get the latest data to make a new report:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Qualys\QualysAgent\ScanOnDemand\Vulnerability /v ScanOnDemand /t reg_dword /d 1

Mac/Linuxโ€“ you can try and force the agent to scan on demand by issuing the following command in the Terminal program when logged in with an account that has sudo privileges:

sudo /Applications/QualysCloudAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/cloudagentctl.sh action=demand type=vm

The path and permissions may differ slightly depending on the Linux distribution.

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