HP Systems Insight Manager 5.2 Update 2 Technical Reference Guide

Deleting event collections
NOTE: Users with administrative rights can delete a shared collection. Users with operator rights or user
rights can view shared collections, but can only delete their own private collections.
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections are displayed. Click to
expand all event collections in the table, or click to collapse all event collections in the table.
3. Select the collection to be deleted.
4. Click Delete. A dialog box appears. To continue with the deletion, click OK, or to cancel the operation,
click Cancel. If the selected collection is not empty or is in use by a task (such as Home page, reports,
and so on) an error message appears. However, if the collections contents are based on attributes, the
collection can be deleted even if it is not empty.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to delete 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
• Editing event collections
• Creating event collections
• Setting properties for an event collection
• Moving event collections
• Copying event collections
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Customizing event collections
• Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
Setting properties for an event collection
You can use the System and Event Collections panel to set event collection properties such as hiding or
showing collections.
To set properties for event collections:
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show collection of dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections are displayed.
Click to expand all event collections in the table, or click to collapse all event collections in
the table.
3. Select a collection, and then click Set Properties. The Set Properties section appears.
4. Under Visible, select Yes, show collection and its members in the user interface or select No,
do not show collection and its members in the user interface . If you have collections that are
unused, you might want to select No, do not show collection and its members in the user interface
so that the collections do not clutter the System and Event Collections panel.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to set properties for collections from
the command line interface (CLI).
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