HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

• Customizing event collections
• Customizing system or cluster collections
• Searching for systems and events
• Viewing the System Overview page
• Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
• Reference
• Default shared collections
• Service notification events
Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
The System and Event Collections panel contains the following features:
1. Tree controls and customization
2. Overviews
3. Systems
4. Events
Selecting a collection displays a view of its contents. Several types of collection view pages can be launched
from the System and Event Collections panel. Select one of the pages in the following list to view more
information on the types of views available.
• Navigating the system table view page
• Navigating the event table view page
• Navigating the Cluster Table View Page
• Navigating the picture view page
• Navigating the tree view
In the System and Event Collections panel, the Private and Shared collections are created by default.
Collections in Shared can be viewed by any valid HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) user. However,
only users with full configuration rights can edit or delete these collections and their contents. Collections in
Private can only be viewed, edited, or deleted by the creator of the collection. Collections can be placed
in Private or Shared collections. To place collections in Shared, you must have full configuration rights.
Private collections can be placed into a shared collection, but shared collections cannot be placed into a
private collection
If the same collection is placed in both Shared and Private, any user that has full configuration rights can
modify the collection stored in the Shared collection. When the collection is modified in one place, changes
are reflected in the other collection. If the user that created the collection has his or her user rights reduced
to limited configuration rights from full configuration rights, the user can no longer modify the collection that
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