It should be noted that for those curious..
We (okay, me) had a huge concern in our environment of deleting agents from the VSA,
out of fear that the agents would be gone and not able to check back in.
Many (over 50%) of our agents out there are on home computers and personal laptops.
Cases where applies, and some might think or consider about this particular issue is stolen machines.
We still have some stolen machines (one I can think of in particular) which has not checked in since
being stolen (6 months ago) and though unlikely that it will ever check in again, the possibility still exists,
and if it ever does, I want to attempt recovery and (via Kaseya) pull some lost client data off that machine.
Back to my point, any agents deleted from the VSA (even though NOT in your VSA anymore nor using an agent
license), can and could still check back in at any point down the road and will re-populate into the VSA
and previous name group.
Chris,
P.S. Routine maintenance such as purging agents that haven't checked in for awhile is good..
And somehow, agents just seem to drop off.. ????
(Surprises us more, cause most of those droped off, don't have system tray icon hidden)
Out of almost 800 agents in our VSA, staff had purged against that hadn't checked in for 60 days,
(which horrified me), and the number amounted to over 250 agents being deleted. That shocked me,
some being business machines, and alot of personal/home computers, etc.