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  • 1.  How to decomission nodes

    Posted Wed February 07, 2024 09:14 AM
    Edited by Igor P. Merkù Wed February 07, 2024 10:00 AM

    Hi all,

    I have ILMT 9.2 with BigFix 10 on Windows.

    We use BigFix exclusively for ILMT.

    We have decomissioned some VM's (some are already physically deleted, others shutdown waiting to be deleted). When I use BigFix/ILMT e.g. to update BigFix or ILMT client/scanner, the list of applicable computers shows also those VM's already deleted.

    How do I tell BigFix which VM's are not existing any more, I guess the expression is how to "decomission computers"?

    Thank you for any help, Igor



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    Igor P. Merkù
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  • 2.  RE: How to decomission nodes

    Posted Wed February 07, 2024 10:49 AM

    Hi Igor,

    Check 'Removing inactive computers from BigFix' chapter from:

    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool?topic=computers-removing-inactive

    Thanks.



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    Andrei Ionescu
    IBM
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  • 3.  RE: How to decomission nodes

    Posted Thu February 08, 2024 06:00 AM

    Hello Andrei,

    thanks a lot for your help and the link.

    I used the Administration tool/BES Remover as explained in the page to schedule a task.

    Found the BESTools.log file and saw [## : I removed number of computers marked deleted]:

    Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:42:08 +0100 -- BES Computer Remover updated settings: 
    Schedule name: BES Computer Remover [IPM]
    Type of Agents that will be removed: Native
    Mark expired computers as deleted: true
    Number of days: 15
     
    Remove data for deleted computers: true
    Number of days: 365
    Remove deleted computers: true
    Number of days: 30
    Remove deleted uploads: true
    Erase uploaded files for Removed Computers: true
    Batch size: 100000
     
    Mark duplicated computers as deleted: true
    Property used to find duplicates: Computer Name
     
    Scheduling Settings: 
    BES Computer Remover task is scheduled: true
    BES Computer Remover task next run: Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:00:00 +0100
    BES Computer Remover task run interval (hours): 24
     
     
    Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:04:30 +0100 -- BES Computer Remover set ## computers as deleted.
    Thu, 08 Feb 2024 11:04:30 +0100 -- BES Computer Remover set 0 correlated representation as deleted.
    Great. Thank you  very much, Andrei!
    Kind regards, Igor


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    Igor P. Merkù
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  • 4.  RE: How to decomission nodes

    Posted Thu February 08, 2024 06:10 AM

    Yet another question, Andrei.

    Is there a way to see which computers have been marked as deleted?

    Thanks, Igor



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    Igor P. Merkù
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