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

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Filtering
When you select the targets for a task, you can combine system collections and event collections on a
temporary basis by using filters. For example, if you want to run a tool on all the servers in a
collection that have important events, select All Servers, and then click [Add Event Filter]. This
process enables you to select an event collection, in this case All Important Events, to use as a
filter. Only one event collection can be used as a filter at a time.
Figure 16. Adding a filter to collection
If you run a tool that requires events as targets, then you can add one or more system collections as
filters. For example, if you want to delete events that are older than 90 days, but only on the print
servers and the database servers, you would select Events older than 90 days as the event
collection and then add All Print Servers and All Database Servers as filters.
Figure 17. Collection with filters added
If the selected event collection is a combination collection, then additional system filtering is not an
option.