Asset Merge even when "Not Affected by Cleanup Options" is checked

[JoeJoeJoe]

I have two issues here,

1) Asset merge even when the "Not Affected by Cleanup Options" is checked. Is there a way to prevent asset from merging? Is there a way to prevent asset merging or at least allow me to review it before it is automatically merge.

2) When asset do automatically merge, what determines which information to keep. For example, I have "asset name " lock checked on one of the assets while the other is not locked. However, the new asset name is still overwritten. Does all information get transferred during the merge, ie description, comments, location.... some seem to be missing from the merge. 

Any clarification would be greatly appreciated. 

[Katgroup]

1. Not Affected by Cleanup Options does not affect merging. Assets can only be merged during scanning, and can't be merged manually.
   
   • If this is a Windows asset, check Windows rename detection - Lansweeper Community.
   • If it's a non-Windows asset, assets are often merged when a duplicate MAC is detected (usually via SNMP). You can use the attached InterfaceScanDebugger EXE to see all the MAC addresses Lansweeper finds via SNMP. Then, you can add them to this table to blacklist them from merging:

     • INSERT INTO tsysMacBlacklist (Mac, Comment) VALUES ('AA:BB:CC:00:11:22', 'Exclusion name')
       GO
       UPDATE tsysupdate SET MacBlacklist = GETDATE()

2. The most recent data will overwrite old data, anything else will be kept.

How Lansweeper uniquely identifies assets - Lansweeper