Purge Computers

You can set up maintenance tasks that will automatically remove computers that haven't communicated with the Arellia Management Server in ninety days by doing the following steps:

1. In the Security Manager Console, click the Configuration tab.
2. In the file library in the left pane, go to Settings > Configuration > Infrastructure.
3. Click Data Feeds.
4. In the right pane click Maintenance - Computer Purging.
5. Click Download. (For details about data feeds, go to Using Data Feeds.)
   
6. Click the Tasks tab.
7. In the file library in the left pane, navigate to Tasks > Infrastructure Scheduled Activities > Maintenance Tasks.  
8. After the data feed has been downloaded and imported, navigate to Tasks > Infrastructure Scheduled Activites > Maintenance Tasks.
9. Configure the schedules and enable the Purge Old Computers and Purge missing computers from AgentRegistration and Gauges task

Change settings

You can change the settings of a maintenance task by doing the following steps:

1. In the Security Manager Console, navigate to the Purge Old Computers maintenance task you created.
2. Click the Resource Purge SQL Executions tab.
3. In the Parameters column, click the 1 parameter(s) configured link and change the number of days as needed.
   
4. Click OK.
5. Click Save.