What Happens to CIs When IT Assets Are Decommissioned? A CMDB Best Practices Guide
TLDR
- Decommissioning a CI changes its lifecycle status to retired without removing the record or its history
- Deleting a CI
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A decommissioned IT asset is a configuration item (CI). Teams permanently retire it from service and mark it inactive in …