Storing Historical information for when a device is decommissioned

So i had a user asked me today during a training of Orion whether they could keep track of when a server is decommissioned. I'm thinking the official Solarwinds answer will be to use WebHelpDesk to sync systems and manage status there. Has anyone else dealt with this kind of issue? What is the official line on this?

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stuartwhyte

I use 3 custom properties:

DeviceDecom (yes/no)

DeviceDecomDate (Date/time)

DeviceDecomComments(Text)

and have setup filters against the DeviceDecom property to hide from views if true, except for the decommissioned devices page. A decommissioned device has the above properties set and is set to unmanaged for a year. After this time the device is deleted.

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stuartwhyte

I use 3 custom properties:

DeviceDecom (yes/no)

DeviceDecomDate (Date/time)

DeviceDecomComments(Text)

damienball

This is great! I'll give it a shot. Our governance/policy group wants to be able to setup a server portfolio group to manage disaster recovery priority and also decommissioned devices. That'll work pretty well. Are you able to get good enough reports out of it vs using webhelpdesk's asset database?

stuartwhyte

We don't use web helpdesk, but its fairly easy to use NPM reports on decom. devices.