HP SIM V5.1 User Guide (356920-009, January 2007)

is located in the Shared collection. They can only edit the collection located in their Private collection which
will not be reflected in the collection located in the Shared collection.
Collections and members of collections can be set to not visible. You might want to do this to remove 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 in the System and Event Collections panel.
Used to expand all branches of the tree
Used to collapse all branches of the tree to first level branches
Used to expand a branch of the tree
Used to collapse 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 preference. Any user can customize his or her Systems,
Events, and Private; collections, but only the user who has full configuration 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:
• System Overview. Displays the System Overview page. See “Viewing the System Overview page”
for more information.
• Health Status Contains the health status of all systems discovered by HP SIM and is the aggregate
status of all the status sources, which can be SNMP, Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM),
Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF), and HTTP. Systems are grouped by their status condition
and type . Each number in a column is a hyperlink to a subset of system status collections that
belong to this Health Status collection.
• Uncleared Event Status Lists the number of uncleared events that have a Critical, Major, Minor,
Warning, Normal, or Informational severity. Events are grouped by their severity and system type.
Each number in a column is a hyperlink to a list of systems that have that particular health status.
Both displays are sorted using the following system categories:
• Servers. HP servers with HP Insight Management Agents
• Clusters. Groups of systems, typically servers
• Clients. Workstations, portables, and desktops
• Networking. Routers, switches, repeaters, or remote access products
• Printers.
• Other. Remote Insight boards, third-party systems that do not fit the servers, clusters, clients, or
other networking categories, such as racks , enclosures , or remote management processors
NOTE: With the use of System Type Manager (STM), other third-party systems can conform to these
system types. See “Manage system types” for more information.
• All Systems. Displays the All Systems page. See “Navigating the system table view page” for
information on the system table view page.
• All Events. Displays the All Events page. See “Navigating the event table view page” for information
on the event table view page.
176 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events