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title: Delete obsolete and expired hardware vulnerability assessments
description: Set up automatic deletion of obsolete or expired assessment records.
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classification: industrial-workspace
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last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Set up the Hardware Vulnerability Assessment of Operational Technology devices using guided setup, Configure, Industrial Workspace, Operational Technology]
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# Delete obsolete and expired hardware vulnerability assessments

Set up automatic deletion of obsolete or expired assessment records.

## Before you begin

Role required: admin

## About this task

Configure the age of obsolete or expired assessments to be cleaned.

-   Obsolete assessments: Invalid assessments, which have been ignored or the associated vulnerable items \(VITs\) are closed for more than two years.
-   Expired assessments: If you update the firmware version of a device, the existing assessments based on the previous firmware version become invalid and are considered as expired assessments. You can delete expired assessments, which are older than a month. However, you must perform new vulnerability assessments for the devices with an updated firmware version.

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **System Data Management** > **Data Management Policies**.

2.  Search for and select the **sn\_vul\_analyst\_firmware\_vulnerability\_assessment** policy.

3.  Select the **Active** check box and configure clean-up rules according to your requirement.

    Configure the age in clean-up rules 1, 2, and 3, after which the obsolete and expired assessments are deleted:

    -   Rule 1: Delete firmware vulnerabilities assessment whose VIT is closed since 2 years\(based on last update date on VIT associated\).
    -   Rule 2: Delete firmware vulnerabilities assessment which are ignored since 2 years \(based on created date\).
    -   Rule 3: Delete firmware vulnerabilities assessment which are expired since 1 month \(based on last update date\).
4.  Select **Update**.


**Parent Topic:**[Set up the Hardware Vulnerability Assessment of Operational Technology devices using guided setup](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/operational-technology/industrial-workspace/configure-hva-using-guided-setup.md)