Discovery Update of inactive CIs

[aveguemartinpin]

Hi everyone,

We have setup Discovery succesfully but we wonder how discovery can managed when a server is not active anymore in our infrastructure. I mean, is there anyway where discovery can update the status of something that is not detected anymore?

Another question would be, what would it happen if a Device with the IP X, is changed and in the IP X it's installed a totally different device?

Thank you in advance!

[Ankush13]

You can check your first point by last updated... if it's older than a set time period, a BR can be written to do the required.

For second, a new CI will be created...

[aveguemartinpin]

So you suggest to create an Schedule Job that searches CIs in the CMDB whose last updated date is more than a period of time*, right?

*Of course that period of time must be greated than the Discovery schedules programmed.

[Ankush13]

Exactly, and then instead of deleting, you can create a new field and populate it as 'retired'. And as soon as the discovery runs, mark these as active..

[aveguemartinpin]

Great! Just to be sure that this can be done, is Discovery updating always the Updated field of a CI, even if non attribute of it is changed? In other words, is Discovery rewriting the Updated field even if no attribute changed?

Thanks again.