HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

range. However, doing this can make it difficult to troubleshoot and diagnose errors if one or more
systems are not configured correctly.
Search criteria
You can select from many criteria when you create a collection. Although the task you run is
associated with one collection, one collection can include numerous conditions.
You can also exclude criteria. For example, including all systems of the type server and excluding
all systems of a certain processor type provides a more distinct subset of the servers on the network.
This filtering is accomplished by selecting is or is not comparison selections.
Commonly used criteria include system type, IP address, product name, and hardware status. Less
frequently used criteria include event category selection (trap categories), processor, management
protocol, and memory range. Event collections include both system criteria and event criteria.
However, event criteria do not apply to system collections.
When you select multiple criteria, the system must meet all criteria for the system to be included in
the collection. For example, if you select systems within a specified IP range and with more than
32 MB of RAM, the collection does not return a system in the specified IP range if the system has
less than 32 MB of RAM.
Complex collections with many individual system selections or with many different selection criteria
take more system resources to execute. If a task is associated with a collection, keep the collection
as simple as possible to minimize the performance impacts.
FindsSystem collection criteria
User-defined field listing the asset number of the system.asset number
Systems that belong to a certain cluster.se cluster node
Systems with common attributes, including: full DNS name,
system host name, serial number, operating system type,
common attributes
operating system version, operating system description,
operating system name, product model, system type, and
IP address.
User-defined field listing the contact for system status
information.
contact
The distinguished name of a system group. Can be used
to create collections used for authorizations. As comparison
directory group
criteria, this can be specified without knowing the full
distinguished name. With support for Dynamic
Authorizations, this enables group memberships in the
directory and changes to them to be reflected and
dynamically updated in HP SIM authorizations.
Systems of specified hardware status type (Critical,
Disabled, Major, Minor, Normal, and Unknown).
hardware status
Systems with an IP address that falls in the specified range.IP address
User-defined field indicating the physical location of the
system.
location
Systems running one or more of the following protocols:
HTTP, WBEM, or SNMP.
management protocol
Systems with memory in the specified range (see “Memory
range criteria” (page 430) for details).
memory range
System running on IPV4.network protocol
The distinguished name of a system. Can create collections
used for authorizations. As comparison criteria, this can
organizational unit (OU)
be specified without knowing the full distinguished name.
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