HP Systems Insight Manager - Manual (Page 70)

Because collections by attribute use a database query, collections that are complex take more
system resources every time they are accessed. Keeping collections simple minimizes
performance impact.
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Combination collections
Combination collections enable you to bind together a system collection and an event collection
and to reuse and recombine system and event collections that you have created.
NOTE: There are two kinds of combination collections. If you are creating a system collection,
then the combination collection returns a system list. If you are creating an event collection,
then the combination collection returns an event list. For example, the two collections All
Servers and All Login and Logout Events could be combined in two ways. One way yields all
servers that have login and logout events. The other way yields all login and logout events
that occurred on servers.
Other customization features
The Customize Collections page enables you to create and organize your collections in a way that
works for you.
Customize Collections page
On the Customize Collections page, some collections show their contents and others do not. For
example, in the above image, All Systems, HP BladeSystems, and Storage Systems are not collections
by member because the expansion icon ( ) is located beside the collection name, and when you
click the icon, the contents of the collection are displayed.
Because collections by attribute are dynamic, determining their content and displaying it in this
interface would be very time consuming. Therefore, their content is not displayed and you cannot
70 Collections in Systems Insight Manager