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Collection Zones

A Collection Zone represents a set of collectors, which are logical groups of services that gather availability, performance, or model data from IT infrastructure resources and services. Collectors can be used for logical or geographical separation of resources and services within an organization, and with this flexibility, one Collection Zone is typically all that is needed.

If you are using Collection Zones and need help, see our Collection Zones documentation.

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A named group of Collection Zone services that gather availability, performance, or model data about devices.

Collectors use generic protocols (ICMP, SNMP) or customized protocols (API calls) to gather data.