HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Copying event collections
You can copy a collection as a new collection. When you copy a collection that was created by members,
you copy the collection and its members into the new collection. If you edit the original collection after you
copy it to the new collection, the newly copied collection is not updated. For example, if the original collection
has two members, the same two members copy to the new collection. If you edit the original collection to
add another member after you copy it, the newly copied collection is not modified.
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 collections:
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections appear. Click to expand
all event collections in the table, or click to collapse all event 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 collection.
5. Under Place in, select a location to save the collection.
• 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 events
• Creating event collections
• Deleting event collections
• Setting properties for an event collection
• Moving event collections
• Editing event collections
Related topics
• Monitoring systems, clusters, and events
• Customizing event collections
• Navigating the System and Event Collections panel
208 Monitoring systems, clusters, and events