What does "Enforce CI verification" do in Asset Management?

[Uncle Rob]

I'm having trouble understanding what this does on a Model Category.   I THINK it should allow you to create a CI manually without having it linked to a specific Asset, but when I test it, something totally different happens.   I test by creating a new CI for a model category with "Enforce CI Verification" on, but it immediately associates that Config Item with an "Unknown" asset.   There is seemingly no way to create a new asset of a specific class.

Did I completely misunderstand the purpose of that field?

[jesusemelendezm]

Ben, Pretty much, I have used class "computer" and both discovered computer has been placed on this class. I ensured that asset and CI did not exist before I run discovery.

[arlenejubie]

Ben,

A)What if I have two CIs that I want to merge.   One created manually and one by discovery.   they are both in the IBM Websphere class.     How can I merge them?

B)   What if I find CIs that should have had assets.   I have some old CIs that are now missing asset records but have a Hardware CI.     This is an exception, not the rule, but I need to be able to create an Asset on demand from a CI.

Thanks

Arlene