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Status Future consideration
Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 5, 2025

Reporting and cleanup of agents

We name nearly all agents for the hostname.

We have hosts get retired but the agent still shows in the console as offline. We currently have inexact and processes to check ServiceNow to see if it's retired, ,and then come back to see for those that aren't retired, see when they last contacted the Deploy Infrastructure. Then we make a judgement call, is a year long enough ago to think that they aren't needed?

I would like to be able to see last deployment activity for a host, as well as last contact, in a view that would let me select all later than a date, and delete them. (I assume that this is a report, but could just be a filtered view of the agent list under resources)

I currently have a PowerShell script that loops through a text file that I build, does an API call to delete the agents from the console, but it's a lot of work to determine what should be deleted.

Current prod is 7.3.2, we are working to upgrade, probably in a few months, to 8.1.1 or later.

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Update: I have found how to get the last deployment activity for an agent from the database.
It's a fairly short bit of SQL, see attached file.
If this was something that could be a report that just delivers a CSV to me, that would help.
Here is a sample of the output. As you can see, we get a way to see all deployments, by application for a given agent. We did find that sometimes there will be more agents reflected in the console than the database, some checking shows that is only the case when the "extra" application has never been deployed to that agent.
agent_name application_name agent_version submitted_time_utc
A090ZOSAgent 1713-UIS-ZOS 7.2.1.0.1122954 2025-12-04 14:03:39.000
A090ZOSAgent 1723-SBR-ZOS 7.2.1.0.1122954 2025-07-03 15:23:43.000
as-riscbfmac02 007 - Charlie - Test App 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-08-08 17:25:07.000
as-riscbfmac02 10637 - Pursuit of Life Mobile App 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-11-18 15:33:22.000
as-riscbfmac02 10800 - Brazil Consumer Mobile App 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-08-28 15:05:22.000
as-riscbfmac02 11450 - Chile Provida Mobile 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-11-12 13:47:08.000
as-riscbfmac02 8898-US Consumer Mobile 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-11-14 15:36:39.000
as-riscbfmac02 8943-GEBMobileApp 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-08-28 16:47:41.000
as-riscpdwapp01 10984-AssetDataRepository 7.3.2.2.1161080 2023-07-13 22:18:47.000
as-siscpdwapp01 10984-AssetDataRepository 7.3.2.2.1161080 2023-07-13 22:21:43.000
av-riscvmatau10 1630-SBCWorkflow 7.3.2.2.1161080 2024-03-03 05:43:23.000
av-riscvmct004 1072-CBS 7.3.2.2.1161080 2025-07-19 01:05:58.000
AV-RISCVMCT073 1081-CDF-UI-Net-CDF 7.3.2.2.1161080 2024-01-19 04:41:16.000
AV-RISCVMCT073 1346-iLINK 7.3.2.2.1161080 2022-12-10 06:28:13.000

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jul 29, 2025

    Our development reviewed this Idea last week and we are going to be providing you a database query to help retrieve the data you are looking for in an upcoming lab advocate meeting.

    We will be considering this Idea for a future release. Thank you for submitting this Idea. At the moment, we do not have the bandwidth to put this in our upcoming 2025 release. In the meantime, we will provide you a temporary solution with the database query to help you in the near term to address your needs.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jul 15, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this Idea. We have created a discussion topic and will review your request with our development team soon. We will keep you informed on status and we may have some follow-up questions for you. Thanks again!