Remove/Retire computer from monitoring

[DwightGappa]

I am retiring a couple of computers from my personal fleet and would like to remove them from being monitored and managed by DevCDR. There might be computers that I now longer have access to the install.

How would I remove the computers?

[rzander]

If your devices do have a current version of DevCDR Agent (>= 2.0.1.45), you can place a file c:\remove-me.txt and restart the agent. To remove it manually, you have to uninstall the agent MSI and remove the Scheduled-Task DevCDR .

[DwightGappa]

Okay, I did remove the devices I was looking to retire with the 'c:\remove-me.txt' method.

When I query the database through JainDB, I see there are 2 devices that need to be purged manually from DevCDR, I don't have access to those Windows installs because they have been blown away. How would I remove those devices?

[rzander]

Ok, you want to remove the data from the database ?! That's a bit a challange as JainDB is splitting the Inventory-JSON into child Objects for data deduplication...

1. delete /site/wwwroot/wwwroot/jaindb/_chain/.json ; these files conatins the blockchain of the inventory data
2. delete /site/wwwroot/wwwroot/jaindb/_full/.json ; these files are optional and are there to cache the current inventory data... if you delete them, they may get recreated if you query data...