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Title
How to Archive Assets for Computers and free up Licenses Node Count? -
Description
When tried to archived Assets for Computers, it doesn't free up any license node count?
Do we need to delete the Assets for Computers completely?
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Cause
By default the K1000 Appliance will set the "Archive Pending Threshold at 3 Days", which allows admin to revert the Device from being marked from Archiving if needed.
When you select "Archive", the Device Asset is in Pending Archived State "Grey Zipped Icon".
When the "Archive Pending Threshold of 3 Days" period expires, the Appliance Archives the device Asset and it enters into Archived State with a "Blue Zipped Icon".
Only after this period, the node license count will no longer take place.
If you want to remove a device Asset from the Pending Archive state:- On the Assets list, click the name of a device Asset that is in the Pending Archive state.
- On the Asset Detail page that appears, click Undo Pending Archive.
The Asset Detail page closes, and the Assets list refreshes, indicating that the device Asset is no longer in the Pending Archive state.
If you want to review the device details for an archived device Asset, on the Assets list, in the Name column, click the device name enclosed in brackets.
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Resolution
How to Archive a Device or Computer Assets
- Log into the K1000 Appliance admin web console and go to Assets tab on the left pane.
- On the Assets for Computers list page, select a Device name and click on Choose Action > Archive
- When the Archive Asset dialog box appeared, in the Archive Reason field, type the reason for this action and click Save.
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Additional Information
Please make sure that when you are archiving a particular device or group of devices, that these devices are not in any type of device label, because the archiving process will stay in a pending state until removed off all labels. Also make sure to adjust the time the K1000 SMA backups are running, due to the fact that the backup job will take precedence over archiving therefore, the archive process will remain in pending state.