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Deleting entries

After creating an automatic Password Reset via the Conversion Wizard, the data is no longer required and can be deleted. The discovered entries have a link to the relevant Discovery Service Task that was executed and can be found and displayed using the filter function.

Deletion process​

The discovered data in the Discovery Service can't be deleted directly from the Discovery Service entries. As the entries have a link to the Discovery Service Task, you must delete the discovered entries via the Discovery Service Task that was created. If entries were discovered using a joint Discovery Service Task, you can't delete them individually. This is the case if two different users have performed a scan on the same area. If you delete one of the two Discovery Service Task, only the entries that had a single link to this Discovery Service Task are deleted. The entries for the other Discovery Service Task are retained and must be deleted via the associated Discovery Service Task. You can find out which Discovery Service Task found a particular entry by selecting the entry via the Conversion Wizard.

Conversion Wizard.

Deleting entries by changing the settings in the System Task​

If the IP range for an existing Discovery Service Task is changed and the Discovery Service Task is then executed for this new IP range, the previously discovered entries from the previous executed Discovery Service Task are deleted from the Discovery Service. To carry out a Discovery Service Task for a different IP range, create a new Discovery Service Task. This prevents any already discovered entries from being deleted. However, if the existing entries are no longer required, you can delete them by using the same Discovery Service Task with a different IP range.

  1. Task B only scans the IP address: 192.168.150.1
  2. Only the entries for the IP address 192.168.150.1 are discovered
  3. Task A is changed and now scans the IP address:192.168.150.2
  4. Result:
  5. Only the entries from the IP address 192.168.150.2 are discovered
  6. Entries for IP address 192.168.150.1 are deleted
  7. Exception:
  8. Task B scans the IP address: 192.168.150.1
  9. The same entries for IP address 192.168.150.1 are discovered as for 1.
  10. A new scan using Task A with a different IP address 192.168.150.2 does not delete the data from Task B
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The Password Resets and passwords created using the Conversion Wizard aren't deleted when the Discovery Service Tasks are deleted.