The customer noticed that she had computer records that are from machines that no longer exists in their network. However, she can't delete them because those are not appearing in the SMP Console.
When searching the database, these machines only exists in few of our tables. Tables like:
CollectionMembership |
Inv_Client_Task_Resources |
InvHistAllRowsDeleted |
NSInternal_ItemInstalled |
ResourceFolder |
ResourceUpdateSummary |
RM_ResourceVirtual_Machine |
String |
TaskTargetDeviceCache |
The customer wants to make sure that these machines can be deleted properly.
ITMS 8.5
These machine resources were previously created during an Resource import that didn't have everything needed to have the proper reference in the database.
There are some tables references that are needed to be properly flagged while trying to delete a computer resource. There are usually different ways to address a computer deletion but since we don't have some of the basic references needed to properly delete them, the following steps should help you to add those references: