Collections in HP Systems Insight Manager 5.1 or greater (441487-001, January 2009)

SystemB

SystemC

CollectionD

There are two instances of SystemC in the view of the hierarchy because CollectionC is the same

throughout the application. Any place that CollectionC is referenced, it will always contain the same

systems. However, SystemD appears only under CollectionB. CollectionB and Copy of CollectionB are

distinct and independent collections.

Move

Move is another new feature in HP SIM 5.1. It enables you to easily move a collection exactly where

you want it in the hierarchy.

Note: Collections can be moved from Private to Shared, but not from Shared to Private.

Delete

Most collections can be deleted. However, there are some restrictions.

• Collections cannot be deleted if they are not empty.

• Collections cannot be deleted if they are in use. That is, if the collection is the target for a scheduled

task, if it is used for the System Status panel, or if it is used in some other collection, then it

cannot be deleted.

• The All Systems and All Events collections cannot be deleted.

After a collection is deleted, it cannot be recovered.

Set Properties

Collections have properties, and these properties define the way collections behave in the System

and Event Collections panel and elsewhere in HP SIM.

• Visible property

It might be the case that there are system or event collections, that are either shipped with HP SIM

or are user-defined, that you do not use, but at the same time, do not want to delete. If you do not

use these collections, but you do not want to delete them, you can remove them from the user

interface by using the Visible setting in the collection properties. When you select No, do not

show collection and its members in the user interface for a collection, that collection no

longer appears in the System and Event Collections panel, in the Task Wizard, or any place

in the user interface (except the customization panel itself) where collections are shown.

Making collections invisible can make the System and Event Collections panel less cluttered,

but note that once you make collections invisible, they are excluded everywhere in HP SIM

including being removed from tasks. For example, if a task is scheduled to run with a certain

collection, and that collection is made not visible, then the task will not run on that collection. You

can change the visibility setting at any time