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How to configure Inventory pruning

This guide shows you how to configure automatic removal of stale devices from a site's Inventory, so your grids reflect what is currently in use rather than accumulating retired hardware.

Prerequisites

  • Administrator role on the site.
  • You understand the impact: a pruned device disappears from Inventory and from the per-device Change history. Audit Snapshots associated with the device are subject to the same pruning.

Warning: Pruning is destructive — devices removed by pruning are gone from Inventory. Choose a retention period that matches your operational rhythm.

Steps

  1. Navigate to Admin Center > Site Settings > Settings > Inventory settings.
  2. In the Pruning section, tick Remove devices that are older than [N] days.
  3. Set the day count. The default is 365.
  4. Save the change.

Note: Pruning evaluates devices by audit recency. A device whose latest audit is older than the configured number of days becomes a candidate for removal.

These two related cleanup mechanisms operate independently of Inventory pruning and are configured on separate pages:

  • Audit service inactivity period — Admin Center > Site Settings > Settings > Audit service settings. Schedules an Audit Service for deletion when it has been inactive for more than the configured number of days (default 30).
  • Audit agent inactivity period — Admin Center > Site Settings > Settings > Audit agent settings. Same pattern for Audit Agents (default 30).

After being scheduled for deletion, an inactive Service or Agent is deleted after a further inactivity window (the formal lifecycle is ACTIVE → MARKED_FOR_DELETION → DELETED, with SELF_DELETE if the Service or Agent comes online during the window).

Verify

After saving you should see:

  • The pruning setting persists on the Inventory settings page.
  • Over subsequent audit cycles, devices whose last audit exceeds the threshold are removed from Inventory grids.

Tips

  • Use the Stale Devices built-in report and the Dashboard's Devices not audited in the last N days widget to preview which devices would be candidates before tightening the threshold.
  • Combine pruning with the Inventory Ignore List on the segment side to prevent unwanted devices from being re-discovered after they are pruned.
  • Snapshot offload to S3-compatible storage is independent of pruning. If you are offloading snapshots, pruning the device record does not affect the snapshots stored in the bucket.