HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 User Guide

set properties on members of these collections. Setting properties on systems that might not be part
of the collection in the future would be of very limited value.
• Edit
Any collection can be edited. However, collections cannot change type. For example, you
can change the criteria for a collection that is defined by attribute, but you cannot change the
collection type so the collection is a collection by member or a combination collection.
• Copy
Copy enables you to copy a collection from one place in the collection hierarchy to another.
It is important to note that what is copied is independent of the original collection; any
collections that are within the copied collection are themselves copied by reference.
For example, consider the following hierarchy (contents of the collections not relevant to the
example are not shown):
If CollectionB is copied to CollectionF, the hierarchy would look like the following:
The new instance of CollectionB receives a new name, but its contents are copied directly.
The contents, CollectionC and CollectionD, are copied by reference. Both CollectionB and
Copy of CollectionB refer to the exact same instances of CollectionC and CollectionD.
Later, if SystemC is added to CollectionC, and SystemD is added to the original CollectionB,
the result would be that SystemC appears in both places, and SystemD appears only in one
place, as follows:
92 Collections in HP SIM