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Define 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 can define operating system normalization rules that are applied during the matching process whenever the reconciliation rule contains asset matching criteria. Any asset matching criterion that contains operating system information automatically applies the operating system normalization rules.

When you map a collected nonauthoritative operating system to a normalized authoritative operating system, the nonauthoritative operating system becomes subordinate to the authoritative operating system in the normalization rule. The subordinate operating system no longer appears in the Collected Operating System list. If you delete the normalization rule that contains the subordinate operating system, the subordinate operating system returns to nonauthoritative status and appears in the Collected Operating System list.

To define operating system normalization rules

1. Click Directory, List Management.
2. On the left, expand Normalization and select Operating System Normalization.

   The discovered Collected Operating System values and the Normalized Operating System values appear.

3. If the term you want to use as the normalized value does not appear in the Normalized Operating System list or the Collected Operating System list, click New Operating System to add the operating system, and then repeat the previous steps.
4. Map the Collected OS list discovered values to a Normalized OS value.

   The list of operating system normalization rules is defined and is referenced during the reconciliation process.

More information:

Operating System Normalization Rules