Deleting the Assets

Role Availability Read-Only Investigator Analyst Manager

Keep in mind these points when you are deleting assets and your environment has an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Sensor, Microsoft Azure Sensor, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Sensor, or a VMware Sensor installed:

  • If you delete an asset, but it is still active/visible in your network environment, the asset is automatically added to your asset inventory for any asset discovery jobs that run after the deletion action.
  • If you delete an asset that has alarms or vulnerabilities associated to it, the asset state will be marked as "terminated”. All saved data associated to the asset is maintained in its current state.
  • If you delete a sensor, all assets on the sensor will be removed from USM Anywhere. However, if you redeploy the sensor, asset configurations that point to the replaced sensor will have the universally unique identifier (UUID) information in that configuration updated to the new sensor UUID.

To delete an asset from the list view

  1. Go to Environment > Assets.
  2. Next to the asset name that you want to delete, click the icon and select Delete Asset.

    The Delete Asset dialog box opens.

    Confirm if you want to delete the asset

  3. Click Delete to delete the asset An IP-addressable host, including but not limited to network devices, virtual servers, and physical servers..

To delete an asset from the asset details page

  1. Go to Environment > Assets.
  2. Next to the asset name that you want to delete, click the icon and select Full Details.
  3. Click Actions > Delete Asset.
  4. Click Delete to delete the asset.

To bulk delete assets

  1. Go to Environment > Assets.
  2. Select the assets you want to delete. See Selecting Assets in Asset List View for more information.
  3. Click Actions > Delete Selected.
  4. Click Delete.

    A bulk delete assets