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

3. Select the collection to be deleted.
4. Click Delete. A dialog box appears. Click OK to continue with the deletion, or click Cancel to cancel
the operation. If the selected collection is not empty or is in use by a task (the Home page, reports, and
so on) an error message appears. However, if the collections contents were determined by attributes,
the collection can be deleted even if it is not empty.
Command line interface
Users with full configuration rights user can use the mxcollection command to delete existing 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
• Setting properties for an event collection
• Moving event collections
• Copying event collections
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Customizing event collections
• Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
Setting properties for an event collection
You can select to make the collection visible in the System and Event Collections panel or to have it
hidden.
To set properties for event collections:
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show collection of dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections are displayed.
Click to expand all event collections in the table, or click to collapse all event collections in
the table.
3. Select a collection, and click Set Properties. The Set Properties section appears.
4. Under Visible, select Yes, show collection and its members in the user interface or select No,
do not show collection and its members in the user interface . You might want to select No, do
not show collection and its members in the user interface if you have collections that are unused
so that they do not clutter the System and Event Collections panel.
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
194 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events