Otdel is called from the HP OpenView OverTime menu when a “Stop
Collecting Targets” is requested. It is passed the list of currently
selected objects. If no objects are selected, the menu item will not be
available. A similar algorithm to otadd is performed to determine what
collections are to be removed.
If otdel detects that a collection to be removed is being used for
threshold monitoring, then rather than the collection being removed, it is
changed to not store the collected data and only the threshold is tested.
Otdel creates a temporary file that is then used to remove collections
from snmpCol.conf.
Otdel also removes the master configuration file in OverTime/cfgs. This
file’s name is the device’s SNMP sysName with an extension of “.mst”.
(See above for the definition of this file).
Otdel then updates overtime.csv (see later) and the master HTML file,
index.html.