Collections in HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 or greater (441487-001, January 2009)

Figure 7. Customize Collections page

On the Customize Collections page, some collections show their contents and others do not. For

example, in Figure 7, All Systems, HP BladeSystems, and Storage Systems are not

collections by member because the expansion icon (

) is located beside the collection name, and

when you click the icon, the contents of the collection are displayed.

Because collections by attribute are dynamic, determining their content and displaying it in this

interface would be very time consuming. Therefore, their content is not displayed and you cannot set

properties on members of these collections. Setting properties on systems that might not be part of the

collection in the future would be of very limited value.

Edit

Any collection can be edited. However, collections cannot change type. For example, you can

change the criteria for a collection that is defined by attribute, but you cannot change the collection

type so the collection is a collection by member or a combination collection.

Copy

Copy is a new feature in HP SIM 5.1 and enables you to copy a collection from one place in the

collection hierarchy to another. It is important to note that what is copied is independent of the

original collection; any collections that are within the copied collection are themselves copied by

reference.

For example, consider the following hierarchy (contents of the collections not relevant to the example

are not shown):

CollectionA

CollectionB

CollectionC