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

1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show collections of dropdown list, select Systems. All available system or cluster collections
are displayed.
3. Click New. The New Collection section appears.
4. Select Choose members individually, Choose members by attributes, or Choose members from
existing system and event collections See “Types of collections” for more information on the different
collection types.
a. If you selected Choose members individually, complete the following:
i. In the Choose from dropdown list, select an individual collection.
Note: When a collection is selected from the dropdown list, the first-level members of that
collection are displayed in the Available Items box.
ii. From the Available Items box, select items to place in the collection by highlighting the item
and clicking >>. You can click the up and down arrow to change the position of an item in
the collection or click Remove to remove items from the Selected Items box.
iii. Click one of the following:
• [Save As Collection] To save the collection. See “Saving collections” for more information
on saving collections.
• [Cancel] To close the New Collection section withouth saving changes.
b. If you selected Choose members by attributes, complete the following:
i. In the Search for dropdown list, select systems or clusters.
ii. Enter the search criteria for the collection. See “Performing an advanced search for systems”
for more information on system search criteria or “Performing an advanced search for clusters”
for more information on cluster search criteria.
iii. Click one of the following:
• [View] To run and display the search immediately.
• [Save As Collection] To save the collection. See “Saving collections” for more information
on saving collections.
• [Cancel] To close the New Collection section withouth saving changes.
c. If you selected Choose members from existing system and event collections, complete the
following.
i. In the Select system collection dropdown list, select a system collection.
Note: No combination collections are displayed in the dropdown list.
ii. In the Select event collections dropdown list, select an event collection.
iii. Click one of the following:
• [View] To run and display the search immediately.
• [Save As Collection] To save the collection. See “Saving collections” for more information
on saving collections.
• [Cancel] To close the New Collection section withouth saving changes.
Note: If a collection is created with a system collection and an event collection on the Customize
Collections page, the collection is saved as a system collection and is placed in the Systems branch
location that you specify.
Command line interface
Users with full configuration rights can use the mxcollection command to create new collections from
the command line interface (CLI).
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