Deleting an Inventory Record
FlexNet Manager Suite 2021 R1 (On-Premises)
You can delete an inventory record when it is no longer required in the system. You
may delete a record if you find duplicate or erroneous inventory records.
Note: Deleting a record updates the database
immediately, as expected. However, if FlexNet Manager Suite is in
'high-frequency mode' (or 'PVU mode', responsible for sub-capacity points
calculations in place of ILMT) and the inventory device is consuming from
any IBM PVU licenses, the device record is not actually deleted straight away
(and a different database update is performed instead, as follows). This is
because IBM PVU licenses require retrospective calculation of consumption points
for the entire reporting period (and this calculation is reworked from scratch
as part of the nightly full compliance calculation), so that removing the device
record while it should still influence those retrospective calculations would
introduce an audit risk. Therefore, instead of being deleted immediately,
devices still required for those calculations are given an
Archived status (and immediately moved to the
Archived Inventory page). An
Archived device acts just like a deleted one in
every way except its continued availability for retroactive corrections
and retrospective calculations. Archived devices
are automatically deleted once they can no longer affect consumption in the data
retention period.
To delete an inventory record:
FlexNet Manager Suite (On-Premises)
2021 R1