How to set CI active=false

[patk1000]

I have to be missing something incredibly simple here. I can run a glide record query for active=true:

var rec = new GlideRecord('cmdb_ci');
rec.addQuery('active',true);
rec.addQuery('name', 'foobarbaz');
rec.query();
while(rec.next()){
       gs.print(rec.sys_id);
       gs.print(rec.name);
}

...Yet when I want to set active=false, there doesn't appear to be an attribute on the record, nor a column in the cmdb_ci table that I can set.

Questions:

1. What the heck am I missing?

2. Am I completely off my rocker to want to set a CI to active=false? Maybe I'm violating some core ITIL principle?

[patk1000]

Right there is exactly what we're going to do.

[Victor Ruiz]

Use the 'operational status' field.

[Daniel Oderbolz]

Also related to this is the fact that GlideRecord - addActiveQuery() does not work with custom fields. 

Note that there was this idea: Make sure that all OOTB (baseline) tables (with exception maybe of sys_*) have an active field but SN decided that it was not worth to implement this...