Purging soft-deleted data by using the Reconciliation Engine

The Normalization Engine and the Reconciliation Engine enable you to normalize CIs across data sets and then reconcile the duplicate CIs into a final production data set. Besides this, it is equally important to regularly purge the soft-deleted data by using Reconciliation. This helps eliminate CIs that are no longer required in your environment.

You can use a Purge activity to physically delete only instances that have been marked as deleted, or soft deleted. You can optionally further restrict the instances to be purged by using a Qualification Set. 

To create a Purge reconciliation activity

1. From CMDB Portal, select Jobs > Manage Reconciliation.
2. Click Create Job and enter a job name.

3. Select the appropriate settings for the job.
   To view the details of every setting, hover the cursor over each setting.

4. Click Add Activity > Purge and perform the following steps:
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5. (Optional) Select a schedule for the job run frequency.
6. Click Save.
7. (Optional) To run the job immediately, open the job from All Job Run Activities and click Start Job.