If an asset can no longer be reused, you can retire the
asset to limit who can find and download it.
Before you begin
To retire an asset, you must be a lifecycle manager for that
asset.
About this task
You can retire an asset from any state of any lifecycle.
When you retire an asset it enters a separate lifecycle, which has
two states:
- Pre-Retired
- The Pre-Retired state copies the
permissions, lifecycle managers, and reviewers from the state of the
lifecycle that the asset was in before it entered the Pre-Retired state.
All owners, lifecycle managers, reviewers, owners of related assets,
and anyone that has downloaded the asset will receive an email that
the asset has entered the Pre-Retired state.
- Retired
- When an asset is in the Retired state,
only administrators and lifecycle managers can find or download the
asset.
Procedure
- Log in to the IBM® Rational® Asset Manager web
client.
- Click My Dashboard.
- In the Assets to Manage section,
click the name of the asset. The General Details
page for the asset opens.
- From the Actions list in the upper-left
of the General Details page, select Retire.
- Click Apply. The asset
will enter the Pre-retired state in the Implicit
Retire Asset Lifecycle workflow. The Pre-Retired state copies the
permissions, lifecycle managers, and reviewers from the state of the
lifecycle that the asset was in before it entered the Pre-Retired state.
All owners, lifecycle managers, reviewers, owners of related assets,
and anyone that has downloaded the asset will receive an email that
the asset has entered the Pre-Retired state.
What to do next
After the asset is in the
Implicit Retire Asset
Lifecycle workflow, you can manage the asset in the following
ways:
- To restore an asset from either the Pre-Retired and Retired states,
from the Actions list select Restore;
then, click Apply. When you restore the asset,
it is resubmitted to the community; it enters the first state of the
appropriate lifecycle based on the asset type or categories of the
asset.
- To change the reviewers, lifecycle managers, policies, and transitions
of the workflow for this asset, see Modifying the lifecycles for individual assets.
- To move the asset to the Retired state, from the Actions list
select Retire; then, click Apply. When an asset is in the Retired state,
only administrators and lifecycle managers can find or download the
asset.