If a discovered Object is decommissioned and longer configured on the network, Will it remain in the CMDB? I have been given the Job of keeping the CMDB health and accurate.
As part of our CMDB/Discovery practice, we only delete duplicate CIs (created manually on accident or mistakenly by Discovery). When a device is removed or decommissioned we mark it as such in the CMDB and maintain it as a permanent record. This allows us to have a complete prior-state history and all of the connections from related Change/Incident records.
