Hello Kolide I m wondering if there is a way to forcefully r

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Hello Kolide I m wondering if there is a way to forcefully remove clients from Fleet or if they go away automatically at some interval post MIA

zwass · Answer

You can configure `host expiry` in the advanced options in the UI or via fleetctl

Dan Achin · Answer

k thanks lemme check that out

Dan Achin · Answer

ah yes I see that thanks If we wanted to be more granular can we remove things from the DB or something basically emulate whatever this setting does but targeted at hosts

Dan Achin · Answer

i just might not want to kill all hosts that haven t checked in for X days just some based on specific criteria although I supposed if we let some hosts expire that we actually want in there once they come back up they would just re register

zwass · Answer

Yeah you have that right They would re register as long as they have a still valid enroll secret

zwass · Answer

You can delete hosts from the DB however you like though

Dan Achin · Answer

not that we want to go in there and do that but is it as easy as finding the hosts table and removing entries is the schema documented somewhere

zwass · Answer

Yeah it should be The schema is only really documented insofar as it is the sum of the db migrations You can always use `show create table hosts` to see it though

Dan Achin · Answer

thanks much