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title: Qualys Cloud Platform Actions
description: "## Actions for Qualys Cloud Platform - ***Send Data to Qualys Cloud Platform***. Sends a custom set of Lucidum data to Qualys Cloud Platform. ## Use Cases Below are the possible use cases for these actions: - If you want…"
url: "https://lucidum.io/docs/qualys-cloud-platform-actions/"
updated: "2025-09-24"
category: Actions / List of Actions / Q
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# Qualys Cloud Platform Actions

## Actions for Qualys Cloud Platform

- ***Send Data to Qualys Cloud Platform***. Sends a custom set of Lucidum data to Qualys Cloud Platform.

## Use Cases

Below are the possible use cases for these actions:

- If you want to run Lucidum “headless”, you can send relevant data to Qualys Cloud Platform on a regular schedule.
- You can send normalized, enriched Lucidum data to Qualys Cloud Platform to be indexed, searched, and analyzed.

## Prerequisites

To execute Qualys Cloud Platform actions, you must:

- Configure an account in Qualys Global Cloud Platform that has API permissions. The required parameters are described in the instructions for creating a Lucidum Connector for Qualys Global Cloud Platform. For details, see [https://lucidum.io/docs/qualys-cloud-platform/](https://lucidum.io/docs/qualys-cloud-platform/).

  **NOTE**. The specified account should have **read and write**permissions.

## Workflows

- [Creating a new Configuration and a new Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_for_creating_configurations_and_actions_in_lucidum)
- [Cloning an Existing Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_using_clone_to_create_a_new_action)
- [Creating a new Action from the Location Results page](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#alternative_workflow_for_creating_an_action)
- [Editing a Configuration](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_for_editing_a_configuration)
- [Editing an Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#workflow_for_editing_an_action)
- [Viewing Information about an Action](https://lucidum.io/docs/overview-of-actions#viewing_information_about_an_existing_action_and_executing_an_action_on_demand)

## Qualys Cloud Platform Configuration

To create a configuration for Qualys Cloud Platform actions:

![qualys_cloud_platform_configuration.png](https://lucidum.cloud/docs/qualys_cloud_platform_configuration.png)

- ***Configuration Name***. Identifier for the Configuration. This name will appear in the Lucidum Action Center.
- ***Host***. The hostname of the Qualys Cloud Platform API. For example, qualysguard.qg*.apps.qualys.com. To determine your platform URL, see [https://www.qualys.com/platform-identification/](https://www.qualys.com/platform-identification/).
- ***Username***. The credentials for a Qualys account that has read and write access to the API data.
- ***Password***. The credentials for a Qualys account that has read access to the API data.
- ***API Version***. Qualys API version. Default version is 2.0.
- ***Max # of Records per Payload***. The maximum number of records to send to Qualys Cloud Platform in each action. The default value is “50”.

## Create a New Action

To create an action for Qualys Cloud Platform, contact Lucidum customer care.