How the Retired status for a computer works

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When a computer's status is changed to Retired (which is a Notification Server core status type), several functions occur to this computer:

• The Retired status does not uninstall agents from the computer.
• If the Inventory Solution agent is installed on the computer, it will release one license for Inventory Solution.
• When the Clean Inventory task runs, software licenses are then cleaned up.
• If this is for Symantec Management Platform 7.x, if an agent is still installed on the computer, when basic inventory checks in, the status of the computer will automatically change to Active. Note: In SQL, the computer's IsManaged field is set to 1 when its status is Active (managed). If the  status is changed to Retired (no longer managed), IsManaged is set then to 0. This will revert back to 1 once the agent checks back in with inventory, however