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Qualys Rule

Inactive and decommissioned assets keep counting unless purge rules are enabled

Catalog row in Vendor License Rules · Cited

Kind
Compliance
Statement
Asset Definition and QLU Calculation: customers must configure purge rules to remove inactive, terminated or unwanted assets to avoid inflated QLU usage; for VMDR and Policy Audit, decommissioned assets are excluded only when purge rules are enabled. QLU Management links to CSAM Asset Purge Rules for this. (page last updated June 2026; as published on 2026-09-27)
Applies when
Stale agents, retired servers and re-imaged hosts.
Applies to
VMDR, Policy Audit, CWP agent-based and other asset-based products.
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