HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Displaying collection type
Select Events from the Show collections of dropdown box to customize event collections.
Expanding or collapsing collections
You can select to view all collections included in the Shared and Private collections, or to view only the
Shared and Private collection titles. Click to expand all system and cluster collections in the table, or
click to collapse all system and cluster collections in the table.
Customize collections table
When the Customize Collections page appears, if the collection and system status appears in the System
and Event Collections panel, a table appears that includes the names of all the collections.
Available buttons
The following options are available on the Customize Collections page for events:
• New This enables you to create a new event collection. If you have administrative rights, you can
save the new collection as a shared collection. Otherwise, you can save it only as a private collection.
See “Performing an advanced search for events” for more information about creating an event collection
by attributes.
• Edit This enables you to modify an existing collection name and its contents.
• Move This enables you to move collections from one collection to another, either from a private to a
shared collection, or from a shared to a private collection.
• Copy This enables you to copy a collection as another collection.
• Delete This enables you to delete an existing event collection or system and event combination
collections. If you have administrative rights, you can delete a shared event collection. Only empty
event collections can be deleted.
• Set Properties This enables you to set the visibility of the collection and its members.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to set properties for 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 events
• Editing event collections
• Creating event collections
• Deleting event collections
• Moving event collections
• Copying event collections
• Setting properties for an event collection
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Default shared collections
• Service notification events
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