Seeing retired items in CA Performance Management that were not manually retired

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

We are seeing retired items in CA Performance Management that were not manually retired

Environment

Release : 3.7

Component : IM Reporting / Admin / Configuration

Resolution

As of 3.7.0, you have NFA integrated, you will see  Retired devices in CAPM due to:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/3-7/building/manage-devices/manage-device-life-cycles.html#concept.dita_005d59f956957bb229aef61ae863711b119c940b_RetirementConsolidation

When the device is retired in NFA, it retires the device in CAPC.
 
Then CAPC automatically discovers the new devices via the following (Changes to Life Cycle Management):

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/3-7/release-notes/new-features-and-enhancements.html#concept.dita_5806523281a8322e06f017e69c5ad5abdff1da00_Enhancements

NFA should create a new device and sync that up for the same IP, and we'll discover a new device in DA to go along with it. 

The old NFA/DA device should be retired and reportable.

NFA would need to contribute to DA to automatically discover new DA items from NFA otherwise old DA/NFA is retired and we end up with NFA only device.