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Inventory settings

This page describes the settings that control how AlloyScan manages discovered devices and maintains an accurate, current inventory. These options help you reduce clutter, remove outdated information, and keep your asset records aligned with real activity in your environment.

From this section of the Admin Center, you can:

Managing inventory configuration in JSON format

At the top of the page, an Import JSON button allows you to upload configuration data. The three-dot menu in the upper-right corner provides two additional actions: Export JSON and Edit as JSON. These tools give administrators full control over settings and make it easy to maintain consistent configurations across environments.

At the top of the page, an Import JSON button allows you to upload configuration data. The three-dot menu in the upper-right corner provides two additional actions: : Export JSON and Edit as JSON. These tools give administrators full control over settings and make it easy to maintain consistent configurations across environments.

  • Import JSON: Use Import JSON to upload inventory settings from a file. This is helpful when restoring saved configurations or applying a shared configuration to multiple AlloyScan instances.

  • Export JSON: Click Export JSON to download the current inventory configuration as a file. This is useful for backups, audits, or sharing your settings with other administrators.

  • Edit as JSON: Selecting this option opens the configuration in raw JSON format, allowing you to modify the underlying parameters directly. This is particularly useful for advanced users who prefer working with structured configuration files or need to adjust values that are not exposed through the UI controls.

Pruning

The Pruning setting enables automatic removal of devices that haven't been audited within a defined time frame.

Old or decommissioned devices - including broken or permanently offline machines - can clutter your asset inventory over time. The Pruning feature lets you set a threshold so that once a device hasn’t been audited for more than the specified number of days, AlloyScan removes it automatically from your records.

By default, this threshold is set to 365 days, meaning that devices not audited within the past year are pruned. However, you can adapt this to suit your organization’s lifecycle policies - for example, setting pruning to 730 days if devices are retired every two years.