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Delete a Normalization Rule

Important! Normalization rules apply to all tenants and public data that are associated with a service provider. Verify that the user completing this task belongs to a role in which reconciliation management access is enabled.

You delete a normalization rule when you no longer want asset matching criteria to apply the normalization rule during the reconciliation process or when you want to change a normalization rule. To change a normalization rule for a company, operating system, or system model, you delete the rule and define a new rule.

When you delete a company normalization rule, the subordinate company returns to nonauthoritative status and appears in the Collected Company list. If the subordinate company was a product-defined company, it also appears in the Normalized Company list on the normalization rule page. When you delete an operating system normalization rule, the subordinate operating system returns to nonauthoritative status and appears in the Collected Operating System list on the normalization rule page. When you delete a system model normalization rule, the subordinate system model returns to nonauthoritative status and appears in the Collected System Model list on the normalization rule page.

To delete a normalization rule

1. Click Directory, List Management.
2. On the left, expand Normalization and select the normalization rule type for the rule that you want to delete.
3. Search for the normalized value or the collected value for which you want to delete a normalization rule.

   For each normalization rule, the collected value and its corresponding normalized value appear in the Search Results section.

4. Select the rule that you want to delete.
5. Click Delete Rule.

   The normalization rule is deleted. Asset matching criteria do not apply the rule during the reconciliation process.