HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

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 6 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.
Related procedures
• Customizing system or cluster collections
• Customizing event collections
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Navigating the tree view page
• System types
Customizing system or cluster collections
The System and Event Collections panel contains a Systems collection. The Systems collection contains
additional system, cluster, and System Functions collections.
NOTE: Cluster collections are created only by attributes, not by members.
Collections can be private or shared. Shared collections are visible to all users, while private collections are
personal collections you create that only you can view. HP SIM includes several predefined shared collections.
For example, Systems by Status is a default shared collection is included with HP SIM. See “Shared system
collections” for information about default shared collections.
To customize system collections, click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The
Customize Collections page appears, and includes the following options:
1. Displaying collection type
2. Expanding or collapsing collections
3. Customize collections table
4. Available buttons
Customizing system or cluster collections 193