HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Overviews
The System and Event Collections panel includes:
• All Systems
Displays the All Systems page. See Navigating the system table view page for information
about the system table view page.
• All Events
Displays the All Events page. See Navigating the event table view page for information about
the event table view page.
Systems
A system collection logically groups systems into a group based on information in the HP SIM
database. After a collection is defined, you can display the results in the workspace or associate
it with a management task.
In addition to using the collections provided by HP SIM, you can create, edit, or delete your own
collections. Collections must follow specific naming conventions. See the HP Systems Insight Manager
User Guide, at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/sim/docs, for more information about
naming collections.
Collections can be used to organize large numbers of systems into smaller, more meaningful groups.
For example, your organization might have five system administrators who are responsible for
100 different systems in 6 different buildings. You can create a collection for each administrator
that includes only his or her systems, or you can create a collection for each building that includes
only the systems located in a particular building.
Events
An event collection logically groups multiple event collections into a single collection based on
information in the HP SIM database. After a collection is defined, you can display the results in
the workspace or associate it with a management task.
Related information
Users and user groups
NOTE: Users that have been added to the Central Management Server (CMS) cannot view or
manage systems until authorizations have been configured for them.
NOTE: Command line tools provided by HP-UX and Linux (such as ls and df) are run as root
by default. For security reasons, you might want them to run as a specific user to avoid inadvertently
allowing unauthorized access to a user.
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