Device Removal Schedule - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM PLANNING-DEPLOYMENT-BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 System Planning Manual

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Management System Administration

Device Removal Schedule

This setting needs to be discussed in detail with the customer during the assessment and design
phases to ensure that you are removing devices that should be removed. You want to avoid removing
devices that have been inactive for a certain number of days because the inactivity might result from
circumstances such as maternity leave or a leave of absence. The customer should be able to give
you the details on how long these situations should last, and what is acceptable. After you have this
information, you can configure the schedule appropriately.
Take the following into consideration when setting up the schedule:
How do we maintain actual reporting data? Do you need very accurate data?
How long are the devices off-line (average time)? Possible cases are vacation, illness,
maternity leave, extended leave of absence, and so forth.
Do you need statistics on removed devices?
If devices are to be flagged for removal and not actually removed from the Management Zone, these
devices can be easily found by specifying the Device State as Lost when searching for devices.
If you are required to report on all devices, even if they are not active on the network, managed
devices can be "retired" instead of removed. When a managed device is retired, its identity and
inventory information is retained but all policy and bundle assignments are removed. A retired
device is in a holding state until you unretire or delete the device from the Management Zone.
For more information on retiring devices, see
Configuration Management Discovery, Deployment, and Retirement
For more information, see
Management System Administration
54 System Planning, Deployment, and Best Practices Guide
Device Refresh Schedule in ZENworks Control Center
"Device Management
"Device Management
Settings" in the
Reference.
"Retiring or Unretiring
Settings" in the
Reference.
ZENworks 10 Configuration
Devices"in the ZENworks 10
Reference.
ZENworks 10 Configuration