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Entity Lifecycle Management

In dynamic environments (cloud, Kubernetes), entities are constantly created and destroyed. ITSI supports entity lifecycle management through automated discovery, aging, and retirement policies. Entities that stop reporting data can be automatically marked as inactive or retired after a configurable timeout.

Entity relationship mapping allows you to define dependencies between entities (e.g., a VM runs on a physical host, an application runs on a VM). When the physical host fails, ITSI can trace the impact through the entity dependency chain to all affected VMs and applications above it.

In Kubernetes environments, set entity aging to 24 hours. Pods that are destroyed and recreated get fresh entities automatically, and stale pods age out.

Knowledge Check

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Complete the sentence about dynamic infrastructure monitoring:
In cloud environments, entities that stop reporting data can be automatically marked as inactive through entity policies.