You can set a laptop plan to automatically retire laptops that have not communicated with the CommServe server for a specified time period. You can also set the laptop plan to deleted retired laptops after a specified time period. By default, laptops are never retired or deleted, regardless of how long they are offline.
Procedure
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From the navigation pane, go to Manage > Plans.
The Plans page appears.
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In the Plan name column, click the laptop plan that you want to set to retire offline laptops.
The plan properties page appears.
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Under Retire offline laptops, do the following:
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In the Retire laptops when they are offline box, specify the time period that you want to retire laptops after.
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In the Delete retired laptops box, specify the time period that you want to delete retired laptops after.
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Results
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After the retirement time period completes, at midnight of the local CommServe server, the Commvault software does the following:
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Deletes offline laptops that do not have associated backup data.
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Retires (deconfigures) offline laptops that have associated backup data.
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After the deletion time period completes, at midnight of the local CommServe server, the Commvault software deletes retired laptops.