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

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However, you can choose to have the status displayed for collections within the highest-level
collection, and after the status is set there, it will be visible at every level of the tree in the System
and Event Collections panel, merging with other displayed statuses all the way to the Systems
item at the top of the tree.
Statuses are merged so that the most significant is always displayed.
Note: Statuses at the top of the following list take priority over those at the bottom.
o Critical
o Major
o Minor
o Warning
o Normal
o Disabled
o Unknown
o Informational
For example, Figure 9 shows that the status cannot be set to be displayed for the Systems by Type
collection, but the All Systems collection within the Systems by Type collection can be set to
display the status.
In Figure 10, in the System and Event Collections panel, the Systems by Type collection will
display the aggregate status of all collections that you have selected to show the status of. In this
example, the selected collections are All Servers, All Networking Devices, and All Printers.
Figure 10. System and Event Collections panel displaying collection aggregate status
• Default View property
When you select a collection in the System and Event Collections panel, the contents of that
collection are displayed in the workspace. By default, different types of collections are displayed in
different ways. Collections by attribute and combination collections default to a table view, but they