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

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Selecting a collection itself
In addition to the checkboxes for each line item, there is also a special checkbox at the top of each
view labeled Select
collection name itself.
Figure 14. Selecting a collection itself
This checkbox is useful for tasks that are scheduled. Because collections are evaluated and their
members determined only at the time of use, a target collection might have different content tomorrow
than it does today. Choosing the collection itself ensures that tasks always work on the most up-to-date
set of systems.
For example, the task Delete Events Older Than 90 days runs once per week and uses the
target collection Events Older than 90 days itself.
If instead, you set up a task and select all events older than 90 days by selecting the checkbox at the
top of the column, and you schedule the task to run weekly, the task works the first week, but in the
second and subsequent weeks, it fails because it tries to delete the same events again.