Merging Assets in NS7

I'm curious how you ended up with duplicates in the first place. A new feature of 7 is that the NS Server can now force the Altiris agent to generate a new GUID if a duplicate computer is detected so I"m wondering how you managed to get one duplicated in the first place. 

NS 6 had different merge options depending on the products installed. If you just had NS core, there was a "Merge Duplicates" report that you could run to combine. However, if you had Asset and CMDB 6 or 6.2 or 6.5 installed, you had additional merge techniques. Since Asset 7 is not shipping, the asset specfic merge capabilities are not included in the product at this time. I could be remembering wrong but I'm thinking the right-click merge you describe is a function of Asset.

I'm a little curious about that as well.  This happened with a VM, and in the Default organizational view I had the computer listed under Computers and again under Computers\Virtual Machines.  This was the only duplicate device.  I just deleted the one that didn't look to have any data collected.  You could be right about merge function that I was referring to being a part of Asset, as we did have that installed.  I'll just wait to see if that feature show up in the new version.

if you go to control panel, sheduled tasks, you will find a Merge Duplicate Resources Task. Also under Reports - Notification Server Management - Server - Resource Reports, there is report called merged resources.

Make sure the "NS.Merge Duplicate Resources.{dfe04fea-d71a-438f-b40e-a8ecd01304c7}" is running, By default it runs every day at 6.15 AM.

Hope this answer your question.

cf. KB 45324 - https://kb.altiris.com/article.asp?article=45324&p=1
Also if your computer not yet in the domain & same name is a "ghost" entry in the imported AD.

I can reproduce 2 computers same name - & report "duplicate computer" does not show them => So after running the "scheduled merging resource" (default every 12h). It is not more "merged"...

1 is a Workgroup machine, other is AD imported machine, same domain name the workgroup name...
So I got 2 PC same name, same domain name (but the 2nd as a wrokgroup name, not domain).
I guess the only way will be delete one of the both, and remove the ghost item in the AD or join the domain (& see if the merge is working better?)
It is logical doing such, and I fell normal Altiris keep both, as they are 2 machines.

Must correct what said above, merge computing was not only an AMS 6 function, also available in CMS 6 level 1 !
;-)