HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

only users with administrative rights rights can edit or delete these collections and their contents. Private
collections can only be viewed, edited, or deleted by the user that created the collection. Collections can
be placed in Private or Shared collections. To place a collection in the Shared folder, you must have
administrative rights. Private collections can be placed into a shared collection, but shared collections cannot
be placed into a private collection.
If a collection is placed in both Shared and Private, any user that has administrative rights can modify the
collection stored in the Shared collection. When the collection is modified in one place, changes are reflected
in the other collection. If the user that created the collection has his or her user rights reduced from
administrative rights to operator rights, he or she can no longer modify the collection that is located in the
Shared collection, and can only edit the collection located in the Private collection, which is not be reflected
in the collection located in the Shared collection.
Collections and members of collections can be set to hidden in the user interface. You might want to do this
to remove the clutter of unused collections from the System and Event Collections panel. See “Setting
properties for a system or cluster collection” and “Setting properties for an event collection” for more
information.
Tree controls and customization
The following controls are available to navigate the tree view in the System and Event Collections panel:
Expands all branches of the tree
all branches of the tree to first-level branches
Expands a branch of the tree
Collapses a branch of the tree
The Customize link in the System and Event Collections panel enables you to customize the System
and Event Collections panel tree to your own preferences. Any user can customize his or her Systems,
Events, and Private collections, but only a user with administrative rights can customize the shared Systems
and Events collections. Click Customize to display the Customize Collections section.
Overviews
The System and Event Collections panel includes:
• All Systems Displays the All Systems page. See “Navigating the system table view page” for
information about the system table view page.
• All Events Displays the All Events page. See “Navigating the event table view page” for information
about the event table view page.
Systems
A system collection logically groups systems into a group based on information in the HP SIM database .
After a collection is defined, you can display the results in the workspace or associate it with a management
task .
In addition to using the collections provided by HP SIM, you can create, edit, or delete your own collections.
Collections must follow specific naming conventions. See “Collection naming conventions” for more information
about naming collections.
Collections can be used to organize large numbers of systems into smaller, more meaningful groups. 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 a
particular building.
Events
An event collection logically groups multiple event collections into a single collection based on information
in the HP SIM database. After a collection is defined, you can display the results in the workspace or associate
it with a management task.
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