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

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Figure 15. Example of table view with events older than 90 days
Global selection of target systems
Whenever you select systems or collections in the HP SIM workspace, either on the collection view
page or with the task wizard, this affects the global selection. When a tool is selected, the task
wizard displays what is in the global selection of the target systems for the tool and asks you to verify
systems. After a tool is run, the global selection remains, enabling you to easily run subsequent tools
on the same set of targets.
If you do not want to verify systems each time you run a task, you can modify the task wizard settings
by selecting Options>Task Wizard Settings and selecting Bypass target verification page
when all targets are valid. See the HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 User Guide for more
information. This option is not available in HP SIM 5.3 or greater.
There is an exception to the global selection rule. Some tools launch separate windows, and the task
wizard appears in a window other than the main window. In this case, changes to the targets in
those tools do not affect the global selection. For example, System Management Homepage launches
in a separate window. When you make a target selection for this tool, within the separate window, it
does not affect the global selection.
Tabs
Because collection views have tabs at the top, you can make some selections on the System(s) tab,
then change to the Events tab and make additional selections. When you switch between tabs, the
previous selections are maintained.
Because you can select different systems on the System(s) tab or systems can be implicitly selected
on the Events tab, HP SIM uses whichever selection is currently being viewed as the global selection
when you select a tool.