Why tons of devices were destroyed by the System account and then rediscovered
Article ID: 403313
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Issue/Introduction
As per the JasperReports Detailed Change Management: All
Around 1000 assets were destroyed and around 1300 assets were discovered
Why the System account destroyed them.
Environment
DX NetOps Spectrum: Any version
Cause
The Autodiscovery job destroyed the models due to modeltype mismatch alarm.
CA Spectrum AutoDiscovery will destroy and recreate models that have a modeltype mismatch alarm
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=44806
Resolution
You can run the following MySQL query for each device name to confirm the Autodiscovery job destroyed and rediscovered it due to modeltype mismatch:
cd $SPECROOT/mysq/bin
./mysql --defaults-file=../my-spectrum.cnf -uroot -p<password> reporting
mysql> select dm.model_name,mc.mclass_name,dm.create_time,dm.destroy_time,mt.mtype_name,v.vendor_name,dm.device_type from devicemodel dm, modelclass mc, vendor v, modeltype mt where dm.model_class=mc.model_class and dm.vendor=v.vendor and dm.mtype_h=mt.mtype_h and dm.model_name like '<device_name>';
+-------------+-------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------+-----------------+
| model_name | mclass_name | create_time | destroy_time | mtype_name | vendor_name | device_type |
+-------------+-------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------+-----------------+
|<device_name>| Firewall | 2020-11-21 14:19:56 | 2025-06-14 08:14:38 | GnSNMPDev | CheckPoint | CheckPointRT |
+-------------+-------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------+-----------------+
|<device_name>| Firewall | 2025-06-14 08:14:38 | NULL | CheckpointFirewall | CheckPoint | CheckPoint 5200 |
+-------------+-------------+---------------------+---------------------+--------------------+-------------+-----------------+
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