Creating event collections, Command line interface – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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Creating event collections

NOTE:

By default, all newly created collections are private.

NOTE:

Users

with

full configuration rights

can create a new shared event collection. Users with limited or

no configuration rights can only create their own collections. They can, however, view shared collections.

1.

Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.

2.

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

3.

Click New. The New Collection section appears.

4.

Select Choose members individually, Choose members by attributes, or Choose members from
existing event and system collections

See

“Types of collections”

for more information on the different

collection types.
a.

If you selected Choose members individually, complete the following:
i.

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

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

ii.

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.

iii. Click one of the following:

[Save As Collection]

To save the collection. See

“Saving collections”

for more information

on saving collections.

[Cancel]

To close the New Collection section withouth saving changes.

b.

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

In the Search for dropdown list, select events.

ii.

Enter the search criteria for the collection. See

“Performing an advanced search for events”

for more information on event search criteria.

iii. Click one of the following:

[View]

To run and display the search immediately.

[Save As Collection]

To save the collection. See

“Saving collections”

for more information

on saving collections.

[Cancel]

To close the New Collection section withouth saving changes.

c.

If you selected Choose members from existing event and system collections, complete the
following.
i.

In the Select event collection dropdown list, select a event collection.

Note:No combination collections are displayed in the dropdown list.

ii.

In the Select system collections dropdown list, select an system collection.

iii. Click one of the following:

[View]

To run and display the search immediately.

[Save As Collection]

To save the collection. See

“Saving collections”

for more information

on saving collections.

[Cancel]

To close the New Collection section withouth 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).

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