Deleting unnecessary CIs for a product in bulk

Your organization might not want to track all approved products in the BMC.ASSET production database. For example, the Notepad++ or Winzip applications might be approved products in an organization, but the organization might not choose to track and manage them, because they do not require licenses. With the Managed status, you can select the products to track.

You can configure BMC CMDB so that if the Managed status is not set for a product, CIs associated with that product are marked for deletion during normalization. Then a reconciliation purge activity deletes that CI from the CMDB dataset. In this way, you can leverage the Managed status to purge unnecessary CIs that are populated in the BMC CMDB datasets by using discovery tools.

Before you begin

By default, the Managed status is set to No. Before configuring BMC CMDB to delete instances of unmanaged products, ensure to review the Managed status setting for all Product Catalog entries.

For more information, see:

Approving and managing products, versions, and patches in the Product Catalog 

Setting the Approved, Managed, and Blacklisted status options of products and versions in bulk

To delete CIs of unmanaged products in bulk

1. Open the BMC.CORE.CONFIG:BMC_CMDBComponent form in search mode by using the direct URL:
   http://<midTierServer>:<portNumber>/arsys/forms/<arSystemServer>/BMC.CORE.CONFIG:BMC_CMDBComponent
2. Search for the record to modify:
   1. Click New Search.
   2. Enter the following value in the Component ID field:
      com.bmc.cmdb.normalizationEngine
   3. Enter the following value in the Property Name field:
      com_bmc_ne_system_DeleteUnmanagedInstances
   4. Click Search.
3. Change the value in the Property Value field to TRUE.
4. Click Save.
5. Run a normalization job, or wait for the next continuous or batch normalization job to finish.
   During normalization, CIs of unmanaged products are marked for deletion (the MarkAsDeleted flag is set to Yes ).
6. Run a reconciliation job that contains a purge activity.
   CIs marked for deletion are removed from BMC CMDB.