(1) Data obtained by a collector that represents the system status at a given point in time. Collections are timestamped and stored in a management collection object. See also schema.
(2) In a Tivoli environment, a container that provides a single view of related resources.
(3) The process of monitoring and storing application performance data, aggregating it to a time interval, and saving it into data files on the endpoint.
(4) A group of objects with a similar set of management rules.
(5) An abstract class without any ordering, element properties, or key properties.
(6) A group of objects that typically have similar performance, availability, backup, retention, and class transition characteristics. A collection is used to catalog a large number of objects which, if cataloged separately, could require an extremely large catalog.
(7) A set of data sources and options for crawling, parsing, indexing, and searching those data sources.
(8) A group of packages that have the same qualifier.