HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show collections of dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections are displayed.
3. Select the event collection to edit, and then click Edit. The Edit Collection section appears. Depending
on how the collection was created, the following appears:
a. If the collection was created with the Choose members individually option, complete the following
steps:
i. In the Choose from dropdown list, select an individual collection.
Note: When a collection is selected from the dropdown list, the first-level members of that
collection are displayed in the Available Items box.
ii. From the Available Items box, select items to place in the collection by highlighting the item
and clicking . You can click the up and down arrow to change the position of an item in
the collection, or click Remove to remove items from the Selected Items box.
iii. Click one of the following:
• 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.
b. If the collection was created with the Choose members by attributes option, complete the
following steps:
i. In the Search for dropdown list, select events.
ii. Enter the search criteria for the collection. See “Performing an advanced search for events”
for more information about event search criteria.
iii. Click one of the following:
• View To run the search and display the results immediately.
• Save As Collection To save the collection. See “Saving collections” for more
information.
• Cancel To close the New Collection section without saving changes.
c. If the collection was created with the Choose members from existing system and event
collections option, complete the following steps:
i. In the Select event collection dropdown list, select an event collection.
Note: Combination collections are not displayed in the dropdown list.
ii. In the Select system collections dropdown list, select a system collection.
iii. Click one of the following:
• View To run the search and display the 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.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to edit existing collections from the
command line interface (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 events
• Creating event collections
204 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events