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HP Systems Insight Manager Technical Reference Guide

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  Monitoring Systems, Clusters, and Events  |  Customizing System or Cluster Collections  |  Creating System or Cluster Collections   

Creating System or Cluster 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
Creating System or Cluster Collections
»Editing System or Cluster Collections
»Deleting System or Cluster Collections
»Setting Properties for a System or Cluster Collection
»Customizing Event Collections
»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 procedure to create a new private or shared system or cluster collection.

Users with full-configuration-rights can create a shared collection. Users who have limited-configuration-rights can only create his or her own private collections. They can, however, view shared collections.

To create a new system or cluster collection:

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

  2. In the Show dropdown list, select Systems. All available system or cluster 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, complete the following:

    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 Systems for more information on system search criteria or Searching for Systems and Events - Performing an Advanced Search for Clusters for more information on cluster 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 Systems
» Customizing System or Cluster Collections - Editing System or Cluster Collections
» Customizing System or Cluster Collections - Deleting System or Cluster Collections
» Customizing System or Cluster Collections - Setting Properties for a System or Cluster Collection

Related Topics

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