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Inactive Status Effect on Asset Matching

Hardware Reconciliation processes all active owned assets created by CA APM that are not excluded from reconciliation. An inactive asset, model, asset family, or company affects reconciliation links between owned and discovered assets as follows:

Inactive owned asset

• If an owned asset is inactive before the Hardware Reconciliation Engine matches the asset to a discovered asset, the owned asset is not matched.
• If an owned asset is made inactive after asset matching, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine clears the matching link the next time the engine processes the reconciliation rule.

Inactive Model

• When a model is made inactive before the Hardware Reconciliation Engine matches a discovered asset to an owned asset that is based on that model, the owned asset is not matched.
• When a model is made inactive after an owned asset that is based on that model is matched, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine clears the matching link for that asset and all others that are based on the inactive model the next time the engine processes the reconciliation rule.

Inactive Asset Family

• When an asset family, class, or subclass is made inactive before the Hardware Reconciliation Engine matches a discovered asset to an owned asset with that asset family, class, or subclass, the owned asset is not matched.
• When an asset family, class, or subclass is made inactive after an owned asset with the asset family, class, or subclass is matched, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine clears the matching link for that asset and all others that belong to the inactive asset family, class, or subclass the next time the engine processes the reconciliation rule.

Inactive Company

• When a company is made inactive before the Hardware Reconciliation Engine matches a discovered asset to an owned asset with that company as the manufacturer, the owned asset is not matched.
• When a company is made inactive after an owned asset with that company as the manufacturer is matched, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine clears the matching link for that asset and all others that are associated with the inactive company the next time the engine processes the reconciliation rule.

Note: For more information about making assets, models, asset families, and companies inactive, see the User Guide.

More information:

Exclude an Asset Family from the Reconciliation Process