HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

9 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
You can monitor systems , clusters , and events using the tools in the System and Event Collections panel.
These tools enable you to locate more information about systems and events and quickly select systems to
perform tasks . From System and Event Collections panel, you can quickly access the System Overview
page, the All Systems page, and the All Events page. You can also save searches in private collections
under Systems or Events. See “Saving collections” for more information.
NOTE: If you upgraded from HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) 4.x to HP SIM 5.x and you used the
My Favorites feature, the My Favorites subfolders and folder contents are migrated under the Private
collections.
About collections
Systems and events are grouped into collections based on information from the HP SIM database. After a
collection is defined, you can display the results or associate the collection with a task. You can also save
an edited or unedited collection as a collection with another name.
You can use collections to organize large numbers of systems into smaller, more meaningful groupings. For
example, your organization might have five system administrators who are responsible for 100 different
systems in six different buildings. You can create a collection for each administrator that includes only his
or her systems, or you can create a collection for each building that includes only the systems located in that
building.
Types of collections
The following types of collections available in HP SIM:
• By member When creating a collection, you can select exactly which specific systems or collections
you want to include. From the Customize Collections page, click New. The New Collection section
appears. Select Choose members individually. When creating event collections, you cannot select
individual events. You can select other event collections only to create a convenient hierarchy.
When creating event collections, you cannot select individual events. You can select event collections
only to create a convenient hierarchy.
• By attribute When creating a collection, you can describe the contents of the collection by the attributes
of its members. Collections defined by attributes are dynamic because each time they are invoked, the
contents are determined again. Many attributes can be used to create collections, including: system
name (full or partial), operating system, system type, and so on. For event collections, attributes could
be cleared status, type, severity, time, and so on. See “Saving collections” for more information about
search criteria and attributes. Multiple attributes can be combined to create the exact group of systems
or events required. You create collections by attribute when you click Save As from the Advanced
Search page. See “Searching for systems and events” for more information about performing a system
or event search.
Complex collections that contain individual collections or a number of search criteria require more
system resources to run. Therefore, it is important to keep the collection as simple as possible to minimize
the performance impacts of individual tasks. This advice applies to collections by attributes only.
NOTE: In HP SIM releases prior to version 5.1, you could specify system attributes when creating
event collections. If you upgrade to HP SIM 5.1 from any previous version of HP SIM, and you have
event collections that include system attributes, the collection is divided into three different collections:
one with the same contents as the original collection, one that includes the system attributes only, and
one that includes the event attributes only. The original collection becomes a combination collection
that contains an event collection with only the original event information, and a system collection with
only the original system information. For example, if you had a collection named MyServersEvents in
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