HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

When you copy a collection that was created based on attributes, you copy the collection attributes into the
new collection. If you edit the original collection after you copy it to the new collection, the newly copied
collection does not reflect these edits.
When you copy a combination collection, the newly created collection has the same system collection and
event collection. If you edit the original collection after you copy it to the new collection, the newly copied
collection is not updated. See the Collections in HP Systems Insight Manager white paper at http://
h18013.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html for more information about
collections.
To copy a collection:
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show dropdown list, select Systems. All available system or cluster collections appear. Click
to expand all system and cluster collections in the table, or click to collapse all system and
cluster collections in the table.
3. Select the collection to copy, and then click Copy. The Copy Collection section appears.
4. In the Collection name field, enter a name for the new collection.
5. Under Place in, select a location to save the collection, and then, depending on the type of collection,
do one of the following:
• Existing collection Select an existing private or shared collection from the dropdown list. Click
OK to save the collection, or click Cancel to cancel the save operation.
Locked collections do not appear in the list.
• New collection Enter a name for the new collection and select an existing private or shared
collection from the dropdown list. Click OK to save the collection, or click Cancel to cancel the
save operation.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to copy existing collections from the
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 systems
• Creating system or cluster collections
• Deleting system or cluster collections
• Setting properties for a system or cluster collection
• Moving system or cluster collections
• Editing system or cluster collections
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Customizing system or cluster collections
• Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
200 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events