Reconciliation results provide data for you to evaluate data about information technology devices and networks.
The reconciliation process identifies successful matches as well as discrepancies and variances between the two sets of data. Typically, Data Set 1 contains information about authorized objects, which are the inventory items you acquired, installed, and recorded in your inventory management processes. Data Set 2 typically contains information that a discovery tool collected about the objects deployed in your enterprise, which might or might not match your authorized inventory.
A link failure occurs when the system processes a link rule and does not find a successful one-to-one link between the object in Data Set 1 and the object in Data Set 2. Link failures also occur when the system finds multiple links.
If you have the required administrative privileges, you can also see the results of comparison rule evaluations. Based on parameters that are set in the Reconciliation Tasks application, you can see one of the following result sets: