The term existing assets is used with reference to the creation of reconciliation rules. The existing assets are the assets that are already a part of the asset system. The existing assets are present in the asset store in the CCS directory.

The objects that are collected from the data collectors are referred to as asset being imported until the reconciliation rules are applied.

See Asset being imported.

When the rules are applied on the asset being imported, the assets that satisfy the rules criteria become a part of the asset system. These assets are then referred to as the existing assets.

For example, consider that you want to update the values of specific asset fields with the Update rule.

Your rule statement reads as follows:

IF an asset being imported exists in the asset system

THEN Update specified fields of an existing asset with the fields of the asset being imported

In this case, the rule checks the field values of the existing assets which are the assets that are already in the asset store. If the asset being imported exists in the asset system, the rule overwrites the values of the existing assets with those of the asset being imported.