HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

In the Search for dropdown list, select systems or clusters.a.

b. Enter the search criteria for the collection. See “Performing an advanced search for systems”

for more information about system search criteria, or see “Performing an advanced search

for clusters” for more information about cluster search criteria.

c. Click one of the following:

• [View] To run the search and display results immediately.

• Save As Collection To save the collection. See “Saving collections” for more

information about saving collections.

• Cancel To close the New Collection section without saving changes.

• If you selected Choose members from existing system and event collections, complete the

following steps:

a. In the Select system collection dropdown list, select a system collection.

Note: Combination collections do not appear in the dropdown list.

b. In the Select event collections dropdown list, select an event collection.

c. Click one of the following:

• View To run and display the search immediately.

• Save As Collection To save the collection. See “Saving collections” for more

information about saving collections.

• Cancel To close the New Collection section without saving changes.

Note: If you create a collection with a system collection and an event collection on the Customize

Collections page, the collection is saved as a system collection and is placed in the Systems branch

location that you specify.

Command line interface

Users with

administrative rights

can use the mxcollection command to create new collections from the

CLI

See “Using command line interface commands” for more information about accessing the manpage, which

includes detailed information for this command.

Related procedures

• Performing an advanced search for systems

• Editing system or cluster collections

• Deleting system or cluster collections

• Setting properties for a system or cluster collection

• Moving system or cluster collections

• Copying system or cluster collections