Deleting unnecessary CIs for a product in bulk
Before you begin
By default, the Managed status is set to No. Before configuring BMC Helix 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
- 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 - Search for the record to modify:
- Click New Search.
- Enter the following value in the Component ID field:
com.bmc.cmdb.normalizationEngine - Enter the following value in the Property Name field:
com_bmc_ne_system_DeleteUnmanagedInstances - Click Search.
- Change the value in the Property Value field to TRUE.
- Click Save.
- 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 ). - Run a reconciliation job that contains a purge activity.
CIs marked for deletion are removed from BMC Helix CMDB.
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