How can a device become retired in DX Netops Performance Management

Products

• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps
• DX NetOps
• CA Network Flow Analysis (NetQos / NFA)

Issue/Introduction

What are the different ways a device can be retired in DX Netops Performance Management?

Environment

All Releases 

Resolution

There are essentially 3 ways to retire a device:

a) The DX Netops Portal UI
See Manage Device Life Cycles guide
 
b)  NFA device replacement.
See Article ID: 144786 - Seeing retired items in DX NetOps Performance Management that were not manually retired
 
c) Deleting from Spectrum and choosing to retire.
See Life Cycle Management guide
 
When you retire a device and rediscover it, the device is discovered as a new device and there is no way to merge the data.

Note: Check if has a discover profile that has the Schedule set daily or Weekly