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Update Operating System Normalization Rules

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 update an operating system normalization rule when you want to change how a discovered operating system is normalized. This update may affect the value of the operating system in a matching asset. To update a normalization rule for an operating system, you delete the rule and define a new rule.

The product monitors updates to normalization rules. If you change an operating system normalization rule and the reconciliation rule update option for operating system is enabled, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine changes the value of the operating system to the new normalized name in matching assets.

Important! If you change a normalization rule for an operating system that applies to public tenant data, the change may affect discovered assets for all tenants, depending on whether they use the specific operating system.

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.

To update operating system normalization rules

1. Click Directory, List Management, Operating System Rules.
2. Delete the normalization rule that you want to change.
3. Define the new operating system normalization rule.

More information:

Operating System Normalization Rules