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Change configuration Change configuration Agents have a default configuration and this controls how agents behave. You can change agent configuration by creating configuration profiles. The Configuration Profiles tab is where you can view the default configuration settings and customize them as needed. Tip - View Initial Profile to see the default settings provided by Qualys Initial Profile is the default profile with configuration settings provided by Qualys. This is assigned to agents by default at installation time. You can easily view the profile settings. Profile settings impact many agent behaviors. How and when the agent collects metadata, when it should sync with the cloud platform, when to do self-updates, tuning of performance and bandwidth utilization, etc. You can create custom profiles with various settings and assign to hosts using tags. Best Practices You might want to assign different agent configurations for different parts of your network infrastructure, i.e. laptops, servers, desktops, datacenters. Just tag your hosts according to your groupings and assign these tags to different configuration profiles. 15

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