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Azure Security Center and Qualys
markus_pitkaranta, the recommendation you've clicked ("Vulnerability assessment solution should be installed on your virtual machines") predates the Ignite announcement. It's the ASC recommendation to setup a vulnerability assessment solution on your VMs.
The Qualys powered extension announced at Ignite is deployed through a new recommendation as described in the new documentation page Integrated vulnerability scanner for virtual machines (Standard tier only).
Incidentally, the relevant recommendation "Enable the built-in vulnerability assessment solution on virtual machines (powered by Qualys)".
Note that the new recommendation is being rolled out gradually so it may not appear in your subscription yet.
I hope this helps.
markus_pitkaranta, the recommendation you've clicked ("Vulnerability assessment solution should be installed on your virtual machines") predates the Ignite announcement. It's the ASC recommendation to setup a vulnerability assessment solution on your VMs.
The Qualys powered extension announced at Ignite is deployed through a new recommendation as described in the new documentation page Integrated vulnerability scanner for virtual machines (Standard tier only).
Incidentally, the relevant recommendation "Enable the built-in vulnerability assessment solution on virtual machines (powered by Qualys)".
Note that the new recommendation is being rolled out gradually so it may not appear in your subscription yet.
I hope this helps.
melvynadam - We are also experiencing various issues with this new plugin. It seems to be working on a few of our instances, but we have several instances, where we have deployed extension, but it is not scanning.
Also - the results are not properly reflected in the Security Center.
We have security center standard tier for all our virtual machines.
MV_BC, LA1976, and markus_pitkaranta,
The schedule isn't final yet but I'm expecting this new recommendation to be open to all customers in the very near future. I'll update this topic when it's done. Hopefully you'll notice the recommendation in Azure Security Center, before you get an alert from Tech Community 🙂
melvynadam- We actually have the options to install/remediate it, but it is just not really working for us.
It is failing on installation of the extension or on collection of data. Currently it is only running properly on 1-2 VM's out of our entire population.
MV_BC that wasn’t the reply I was hoping for!
Do you have an open ticket with support? If yes, send me the ticket number and we’ll track this from our side too.