How can I retire a device in Statseeker?

To retire a device via the Console:

This will open the Device Details Report.

This will open the NIM Edit Device dialog.

To retire multiple devices from the Administration Tool:

Open the Administration Tool
Select Network Discovery > Delete/Retire Devices
Click to select a device from the list provided. Hold Shift while clicking to select groups of devices and Ctrl to add an additional device to the selection
Click Retire

When a device is retired, Statseeker takes the following actions:

Action	Details
Rename the device	All polling and data collection for the device will be disabled A retired device will no longer count towards licensing limits All historical and configuration data relating to the device is retained The device is renamed, prepended with ~ and appended with -retired. e.g. Melb-Router-1 becomes ~Melb-Router-1-retired This pushes all retired devices to the bottom of the devices list and allows a replacement device to take the same name as the old device.
Stop polling	ping and SNMP polling are set to off
Stop Mac/IP and inventory data collection	Inventory reporting and discovery will be disabled for the device
Regroup the device	Remove the device from all groups Add the device to the Retired Devices group
Filter status reports	The device will not appear in any current device status reports
Edit Hosts File	If the device appeared in the Hosts File, remove it
Edit SNMP Conf	If the device appeared in the SNMP Conf file, remove it

Note: it is not possible to un-retire a device.

How can I retire a device in statseeker?