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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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Creating Event Collections

»Table of Contents
»Index
»Notices
»Introduction
»Product Overview
»Getting Started
»Discovery and Identification
»Users and Authorizations
»Networking and Security
»Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
»Navigating the Systems and Events Panel
»Viewing the System Overview Page
»Saving Collections
»Customizing System or Cluster Collections
»Customizing Event Collections
Creating Event Collections
»Editing Event Collections
» Deleting Event Collections
»Setting Properties for an Event Collection
»System Table View Page
»Cluster Table View Page
»Event Table View Page
»Searching for Systems and Events
»Reference
»Storage Integration
»Managing with Tasks
»Tools that Extend Management
»Partner Applications
»Reporting
»Administering Systems and Events
»Troubleshooting
»Reference Information
»Printable version
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Command Line Interface
» Related Procedures
» Related Topics

Perform the following procedures to create a new event collection.

By default, all newly created collections are private.

Users with full-configuration-rights can create a new shared event collection. Users with limited or no configuration rights or can only create their own collections. They can, however, view shared collections.

To create a new event collection:

  1. Click Customize in the Systems and Events panel. The Customize Collections page appears.

  2. In the Show dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections are displayed.

  3. Click [New]. The New Collection section appears.

  4. Select Choose members individually or Choose members by attributes.

  5. If you selected Choose members individually:

    1. In the Choose from dropdown list, select an individual collection or collection member.

      Note: When a collection is selected from the dropdown list, the first level members of that collection are displayed in the Available Items box.

    2. From the Available Items box, select items to place in the collection by highlighting the item and clicking >>. You can click the up and down arrow to change the position of an item in the collection, or click [Remove] to remove items from the Selected Items box.

    3. Click [Save As] to save the collection. The Save As section appears. You can click [Cancel] to close the New Collection section without saving changes. Refer to Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events - Saving Collections for more information on saving a collection.

  6. If you selected Choose members by attributes, the New section appears.

    1. In the Search for dropdown list, select systems or clusters.

    2. Enter the search criteria for the collection. Refer to Searching for Systems and Events - Performing an Advanced Search for Events for more information on event search criteria.

    3. Click [View] to conduct the search immediately or click [Save As] to save the collection. The [Save As] section appears. Refer to Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events - Saving Collections for more information on saving collections. Or click [Cancel] to close the New Collection section without saving changes.

Command Line Interface

Users with full-configuration-rights user can use the mxcollection command to create new collections from the command line interface (CLI).

Refer to Getting Started - Using Command Line Interface Commands for more information on accessing the manpage, which includes detailed information for this command.

Related Procedures

» Searching for Systems and Events - Performing an Advanced Search for Events
» Customizing Event Collections - Editing Event Collections
» Customizing Event Collections - Deleting Event Collections
» Customizing Event Collections - Setting Properties for an Event Collection

Related Topics

» HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide - Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events
» Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events - Customizing Event Collections
» Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events - Navigating the Systems and Events Panel