The Collection Process

Once the discovery process is complete, the collection process starts:

•Every five minutes, the BPM Express for Hardware spawns several paramlets that are responsible for the collection of information about a given device type.

•For example, the SEN_HW_FAN_CLASS paramlet will gather fan information from the different detected hardware information sources, as described in the corresponding “.hdf” Fan.Collect section.

•These paramlets are "attached" to the main BPM Express for Hardware icon (SEN_HW_MAIN class) and not to the corresponding classes and instances.

•When a device is marked as "missing" by the discovery process (i.e. had been discovered but is no longer discovered), the collection process no longer queries the hardware information source and simply sets the status of the object to alarm.