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Exclude an Ownership Asset from the Reconciliation Process

You can exclude individual owned assets from the reconciliation process. Some reasons for excluding assets from reconciliation include the following examples:

• An owned asset has no matching discovered asset and continues to be included in the list of unreconciled assets. For example, assets that are never attached to the network, like some laptops, or assets that are retired, but their ownership data is stored in CA APM.
• A company does not want to include a particular class of asset, for example, laptops, in reconciliation.

If an owned asset is excluded from the reconciliation process before the Hardware Reconciliation Engine matches the asset to a discovered asset, the owned asset is not available for matching. If an owned asset is excluded from the reconciliation process after asset matching, the Hardware Reconciliation Engine clears the matching link the next time the engine processes the reconciliation rule. The owned asset is not available for matching.

Note: If the asset family of an excluded asset is set to be included in the hardware reconciliation process, the asset continues to be excluded from the process. If an asset family is excluded from the hardware reconciliation process, all assets that belong to the excluded asset family are excluded.

To exclude an ownership asset from the reconciliation process

1. Click Asset, Asset Search.
2. Search to find the list of available assets.
3. Click the asset that you want to exclude from the reconciliation process.
4. In the Basic Information section, select the Exclude Reconciliation check box.
5. Click Save.

   The ownership asset is not included in future reconciliations.

More information:

Inactive Status Effect on Asset Matching