Discovering Retired Assets That Are Now Active

[MonitorMan]

Hello folks

We are running CMS 7.6 HF7. I have 2 questions regarding asset status and the interaction with licenses.

1) What does the IsManaged Column mean in the vRetiredAsset view? I have a mixture of retired computers that are both IsManaged=1 or IsManaged=0. I was under the impression that all retired assets would become IsManaged=0.

2) What have others used to discover retired assets becoming active active? Is querying the Evt_NS_Item_Management table appropriate?

Select im.ItemName
,im.Action
,im._eventTime
 from 
Evt_NS_Item_Management im
join vRetiredAsset vra
on im.ItemGuid = vra.Guid
where im.ResourceTypeGuid in ('493435F7-3B17-4C4C-B07F-C23E7AB7781F', '2C3CB3BB-FEE9-48DF-804F-90856198B600')
and im._eventTime >= DATEADD(day, -7, GETDATE())
order by 3 desc

Thanks

[Sam Pace]

Hi,

I've picked out a few articles that may be of use for explaining the IsManaged value in Altiris, please see below:

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO59823.html

The above article also refers to a best practice article for retiring machines, this also has detail about the IsManaged value:

https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.HOWTO95111.html

 

Is it possible you could utilise information from AD to understand if the machine is active or not? Please see below for two articles on extending AD Import to return additional data which can be used to identify if the machine is active, but potentially doesn't have an Altiris agent. 

https://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/finding-broken-agents-extending-ad-import

https://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/comparing-altiris-data-ad-determine-missing-clients

 

Let us know if that helps, cheers!