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Exclude an Asset Family Class or Subclass from the Reconciliation Process

You can exclude all owned assets in an asset family class or subclass from the hardware reconciliation process. For example, you can exclude assets because your company wants to make an asset family class or subclass inactive. Hardware Reconciliation processes active owned assets created by CA APM.

If an asset family class or subclass is excluded from the reconciliation process before the Hardware Reconciliation Engine matches discovered assets to owned assets in that asset family class or subclass, the owned assets are not available for matching. If an asset family class or subclass is excluded from the reconciliation process after owned assets in that asset family class or subclass are matched, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine clears the matching links the next time the engine processes the reconciliation rule. The owned assets are not available for matching.

To exclude an asset family class or subclass from the reconciliation process

1. Click Directory, List Management.
2. On the left, expand Asset Lists and click Asset Family.
3. Click the Edit Record icon for the asset family with a class or subclass you want to exclude from the reconciliation process.
4. Click Class List.
5. Click the Edit Record icon for the class you want to exclude from the reconciliation process (or the class with a subclass you want to exclude).
6. Select the Inactive check box and click the Complete Record Edit icon for the asset family class if you want to exclude the entire class.

   Note: Skip this step if you want to exclude a subclass, but not the entire class, from the reconciliation process.

7. Click Subclass List if you want to exclude a subclass.
8. Click the Edit Record icon for the subclass you want to exclude from the reconciliation process.
9. Select the Inactive check box and click the Complete Record Edit icon for the asset family subclass.
10. Click Save.

    Assets in the excluded asset family class or subclass are not included in future reconciliations.