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

Customize collections table
When the Customize Collections page appears, a table is displayed that includes the names of all the
collections, if the collection is displayed in the System and Event Collections panel, and if the system
status is displayed in the System and Event Collections panel.
Available buttons
On the Customize Collections page for events, five options are available:
• New. This enable you to create a new event collection. With full configuration rights, you can save the
new collection as a shared collection. Otherwise, you can only save it as a private collection. See
“Performing an advanced search for events” for more information on creating an event collection by
attributes.
• Edit. This enables you to modify an existing collection name and its contents. See “Editing event
collections” for more information on editing event collections.
• Move. This enables you to move collections from one collection to another collection. It can be from a
private to a shared collection or from a shared to a private collection. See “Moving system or cluster
collections” for more information on moving system collections .
• Copy. This enables you to copy a collection as another collection. See “Copying system or cluster
collections” for more information.
• Delete. This enables you to delete an existing event collection or system and event combination
collections. With full configuration rights, you can delete a shared event collection. Only empty event
collections can be deleted. See “ Deleting Event Collections” for more information.
• Set Properties. This enables you to set if the visibility of the collection and its members. See “Setting
properties for a system or cluster collection” for more information.
Command line interface
Users with full configuration rights user can use the mxcollection command to set properties for collections
from the command line interface (CLI).
See “Using command line interface commands” for more information on accessing the manpage, which
includes detailed information for this command.
Related procedures
• Performing an advanced search for events
• Editing event collections
• Creating event collections
• Deleting Event Collections
• Moving event collections
• Copying event collections
• Setting properties for an event collection
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Default shared collections
• Service notification events
188 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events