Deleting invalid assets
After you fix the assets that contributed to the asset growth deviation, clean up your asset artifacts by using selective clean up or rebuilding the asset database.
About this task
- Selective clean up
- This method is for asset growth deviations of limited scope. Selectively removing the affected assets is the least invasive way to clean up asset artifacts, but if many assets were affected, it can also be the most tedious.
- Rebuild the asset database
- Rebuilding the asset database from scratch is the most efficient
and precise method of deleting assets when asset growth deviations
are pervasive.
This method passively regenerates assets in your database based on the new tuning that you configured to resolve the asset growth issues. With this approach, all scan results and residual asset data are lost, but the data can be reclaimed by rerunning a scan or re-importing scan results.
Procedure
Results
Purging a blocklist removes all blocklist entries, including those entries that were added manually. Blocklist entries that were manually added must be added again.