Deleting Application Assets

CentraSite User's Guide : Asset Management : Managing Assets through CentraSite Business UI : Application Management : Deleting Application Assets

If you are not the owner of an Application asset, you cannot delete the Application unless you have Full permission on the Application (granted though either a role-based permission or instance-level permission).

The following general guidelines apply when deleting an Application asset in CentraSite Business UI:

Deleting an Application asset permanently removes the Application from the catalog.

An Application asset can only be deleted if it is not the target of an association from another registry object.

When you delete an Application asset, CentraSite removes the catalog entry for the Application (that is, it removes the instance of the Application asset from CentraSite's object database). Also note that:

The performance metrics and event information of the Application are also deleted.

Note:

When you delete the Application asset, this information is deleted by the built-in action Delete RuntimeEvents and RuntimeMetrics of Service, which is installed with CentraSite.

When you delete a composite Application asset, all of its nonshared components are also deleted.

Deleting an Application asset will not remove:

Other assets to which the Application asset refers (unless the reference is to an asset that is a nonshared component of the asset you are deleting). For example, if you are deleting is an Application asset with a Consumes or Consumed By relationship with other services in the registry, the related services will not be deleted.

Supporting documents that are attached to the Application asset.

Earlier versions of the Application asset. Only the latest version of an asset can be deleted; to remove earlier versions, they must be purged.

You cannot delete an Application asset if:

The Application is in a pending state (for example, awaiting approval).

Any user in your CentraSite registry is currently modifying the Application.

To delete Application assets

1. In CentraSite Business UI, access the Advanced Search panel in one of the following ways:

Click the Browse link in the upper-left corner of the menu bar.

Click the Search icon next to the Scope list. The default search scope is Assets.

This displays a list of assets in the Search Results page.

2. In the Additional Search Criteria list, select Asset Types.

3. To search for the assets of type, Application, click Choose.

4. In the Choose Asset Types dialog box, select the Assets option button, and perform the following:

a. Click the chevron next to Assets option button.

A list of defined asset types in CentraSite is displayed.

b. In the list of asset types, select Application.

c. Click OK.

A list of defined Application assets is displayed in the Search Results page.

5. Select one or multiple Application assets you want to delete.

6. On the actions bar of the Search Results page, click Delete.

You can also delete a single Application asset from the actions bar of its details page.

7. Click Yes in the confirmation dialog box.

Note:

If you have selected a set of Applications, where one or multiple Applications are in a pending state (for example, awaiting approval), CentraSite ignores the pending list of Applications, and deletes any remaining Applications for which you have the required permission.

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