HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Related procedures

▲ Creating a data collection task

Related topics

• Discovery and identification

• Protocols

• Reference information

• System Page

• Reporting

Creating a data collection task

Data collection is used to gather data that can be used for reporting. You can collect detailed data to use

for reporting or for comparing different systems with Snapshot Comparisons, or you can collect less detailed

data but collect it over time, which enables you to use Snapshot Comparisons to view trends on a single

system.

To create a Data Collection task:

1. Select Options→Data Collection. The Data Collection page appears.

2. Select target systems. See “Creating a task” for more information.

3. Click Next.

4. Specify how to save data by selecting:

• Overwrite existing data set (for detailed analysis). Provides a network snapshot at a certain

time

• Append new data set (for historical trend analysis). Provides trend and usage analysis

5. Select one of the following options to execute the task:

• Click Schedule to schedule when the task should run. See “Scheduling a task”.

• Click Run Now to run the task now. The Task Results Page appears. See “Task results list”.

• Click Previous to return to the previous page.

6. Click Done.

View the task results by selecting the desired data collection task on the All Scheduled Tasks page. See

“Task results list” for more information about the All Scheduled Tasks page.

Command line interface

Use the mxtask command to perform this task from the command line interface. For assistance with this

command, see the HP-UX or Linux manpage by entering mxtask at the command line or the Windows

command help. See “Using command line interface commands” for information about accessing the manpage.