Automatically removing obsolete deployed assets

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You can delete obsolete deployed assets so that asset owners have accurate reconciliation reports.

About this task

When an asset goes live, it is discovered and accounted for in Maximo IT. However, when a deployed asset is decommissioned, returned to vendor, or no longer discovered, it remains in Maximo IT as if the asset were still active.

This might be a problem because all of the deployed assets that were active at one point but have been decommissioned, still report back as active assets. This not only gives an inaccurate representation of global assets, but also presents problems within the reconciliation process. Reconciliation reports continue to show that there is a missing authorized asset, even though that asset is no longer authorized, and no longer discovered.

Note: This feature is not applicable on entries in the Network Devices application.

To configure Maximo IT to automatically remove obsolete deployed assets, complete the following steps. Note that when a computer is deleted, the software on that computer is also deleted.

Procedure

  1. Add or change the following system properties to configure the feature:
    mxe.autodeldeployed.enable = '1'
    Set to '1' to automatically delete deployed hardware in batch mode when they are discovered more than XYZ days ago. Set to ‘0’ to disable the functionality. Default is ‘0’.
    mxe.autodeldeployed.threshold = Integer value
    If hardware discovery dates are outside of this threshold window, they are deleted during the next batch cycle. Default is 180.
    mxe.autodeldeployed.commitsize = Integer value
    After this number of records is reached, updates are committed. Default is 100.
  2. Change the frequency of the process. Go to the Escalation application. Select AUTODELDEPLOYED and change the schedule.

Results

Maximo IT is now configured to automatically delete obsolete deployed assets.