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Once a device has been interrogated, the collector will load all the monitoring commands (those of type "monitoring") whose requirements are met for the device (based on the "requires" directive of the monitoring script). See sample scripts here.
The scripts will be run repeatedly, according to their interval. The metrics generated will be sent off to the server for storage in the DB. Prior to sending to the server, the collector attaches the device-id and collection timestamp to each metric. In some cases, a single monitoring script can generate several thousand metrics.
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