A collection is a logical grouping of resources and views, and a view is a display of user-selected data. The visualization of any collection is one or more views.
Collections and collection views differ in the following ways:
You can create a collection with an arbitrarily large number of members. However, displaying them all in a single OpenEdge Management page might not be practical. Instead, you can create multiple views of a collection and each view can focus on a different aspect of the collection.
A collection is hierarchical. You choose the parent for each collection when you create it. This allows you further flexibility in isolating specific performance data.
You can create views that include nonresource viewlets, such as resources with alerts or active monitoring plans. Neither of these views corresponds to a single resource and would not equate to a member in a collection, which consists of a group of individual resources.
You can create a collection with an arbitrarily large number of members. However, displaying them all in a single OpenEdge Management page might not be practical. Instead, you can create multiple views of a collection and each view can focus on a different aspect of the collection.