A chap that used to work in the company wrote a pair of patterns (one for WMI, one for SSH) to retrieve server 'owners' from the servers. These patterns faithfully run once a week and update the Organisation to Node relationship.
It's very handy and wildly under-used information and I have spent a fair amount of time publicising it inside the company. I think some people even find it useful :)
A new Owner appeared the other week. Same name as one of the 'old' Owner teams but with a # on the end. Took a bit of figuring out but then I noticed that they were all UNIX servers and had a chat with a very helpful sys admin. Turns out you can't comment out the old Owner and replace it with a new value... D'oh!
He ran an editing script, I re-ran the SSH pattern; job done, data neatly tidied up.
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