CMDB Data Manager Retirement Policies

[Gus1]

We're trying to setup a retirement policy for the vCenter Instance class.
We've created the following CMDB Retirement Custom Definition (Rule):

And we've created the following policy:

When the scheduled job "CMDB Data Manager Retire Policy Processor" is executed the task is created and processed in the cmdb_data_management_task table but the ci's found don't appear to have been retired. What are we missing here?

[Tony Branton · Accepted solution]

The Retirement Definition you set is using a "is not" operator, so this means that when Data Manager attempts to set a CI's Install Status field it will use any value except "Retired".

The purpose of Retirement Definitions is to specify the field and value for a CI class that equates to retirement.  In the case above the Retirement Definition should be Install Status is Retired.

Note that Retirement Definitions can only specify a single value for a field included in the definition - multiple values for a single field are not supported.