(imported topic written by ErinC91)
We have an ongoing pc-refresh scheme in place and PCs are being replaced every week.
It’s my understanding that BES removes PCs from the database 2 months after the last report time.
Is there some way I can copy and paste in a list of PC names to be removed from the database ?
Ideally I want to copy and paste a list of PCs from a column in an XL Spreadsheet.
It would really save me some time manually deleting them.
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
Erin,
We don’t automatically remove computers by default but we do provide a tool that you can run which does this operation for any time interval you specify.
http://support.bigfix.com/bes/install/downloadutility.html#besexpiredcomputerremover
The easiest way I can think of to take a list of computers and then delete them would be to create an custom action and input the list using the third radio button for targeting (input a list of computers). Once the action is created, it will give you a list of the computers that existed in Bigfix and were also in your list on the ‘Reported Computers’ tab of the action. Now you can do a select all, right-click, delete to remove them. If any of the computers actually exist still they’ll report for the action.
(imported comment written by ErinC91)
That method was very simple and worked a treat. Thanks again Tyler.