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Migrate Hardware Reconciliation Searches

You migrate the hardware reconciliation custom searches from CA APM Release 11.3.4 to Release 12.8 hardware reconciliation reports. The product provides predefined hardware reconciliation reports that are generated by CA Business Intelligence software. You can customize these reports using CA Business Intelligence, which is also provided.

Hardware reconciliation reports provide the following information:

• Owned assets that have been reconciled to a discovered asset, including both discovered inventory and network discovery records.
• Billed assets (an active or received asset having a valid bill code) not matched to a discovery record.
• Discovered assets not reconciled to an owned asset.
• Discovered assets not processed due to missing or invalid data.
• Counts of the current discovery data volume.
• Owned assets matched to discovery records.
• Owned assets not matched to discovery records.
• Matches between network discovery data and agent discovery data.
• Potential lost revenue, including assets not being billed, but discovered. This report exposes revenue opportunities that are based on the number of assets being billed. Use the information in this report to provide proof that an asset is active and discovered.
• Network discovery records that have not been matched to a corresponding discovered inventory. Network discovery provides limited data to identify an asset on the network. Discovery provides detailed hardware and software information about an asset.

Use the Release 11.3.4 search information in the Customized Search Report to determine which hardware reconciliation reports to generate and possibly customize.

Follow these steps:

1. Follow the instructions for generating hardware reconciliation reports in the Reporting section of the User Guide.
2. Use the information in the Customized Search Report to locate the related hardware reconciliation report and enter the search criteria.

Note: To add unreconciled assets by generating and exporting the results of a report and then importing the report results through Data Importer, follow the instructions in the Add Assets from Unreconciled Discovered Records section of the Administration Guide.