HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Technical Reference Guide

Procedure 126 Copying event collections
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections appear. Click
to expand all event collections in the table, or click to collapse all event collections in
the table.
3. Select the collection to copy, and then click Copy. The Copy Collection section appears.
4. In the Collection name field, enter a name for the collection.
5. Under Place in, select a location to save the collection.
• Existing collection
Select an existing private or shared collection from the dropdown list. Click OK to save
the collection, or click Cancel to cancel the save operation.
Locked collections do not appear in the list.
• New collection
Enter a name for the new collection and select an existing private or shared collection
from the dropdown list. Click OK to save the collection, or click Cancel to cancel the save
operation.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to copy existing collections
from the CLI.
Related information
Deleting event collections
NOTE: Users with administrative rights can delete a shared collection. Users with operator rights
or user rights can view shared collections, but can only delete their own private collections.
Procedure 127 Deleting event collections
1. Click Customize in the System and Event Collections panel. The Customize Collections page
appears.
2. In the Show dropdown list, select Events. All available event collections appear. Click
to expand all event collections in the table, or click to collapse all event collections in
the table.
3. Select the collection to be deleted.
4. Click Delete. A dialog box appears. To continue with the deletion, click OK, or to cancel the
operation, click Cancel. If the selected collection is not empty or is in use by a task (such as
Home page, reports, and so on) an error message appears. However, if the collections contents
are based on attributes, you can delete the collection even if it is not empty.
Command line interface
Users with administrative rights can use the mxcollection command to delete existing collections
from the CLI.
Related information
Setting event properties
You can use the System and Event Collections panel to set event collection properties such as hiding
or showing collections.
Monitoring systems and events 267