The Collector process is responsible for pulling in inventory and metric data from the configured sources. As shown in the following diagram, the Collector uses adapters to collect data from various sources, and then contacts the GemFire locator for connection information to one or more Controller cache servers. The Collector service then connects to one or more Controller API GemFire cache servers, and sends the collected data.
It is important to note that although an instance of an adapter can only be running on one node at a time, it does not imply that the collected data is being sent to the Controller on that node.
The Collector will send a heartbeat to the Controller every 30 seconds. This is sent via the HeartbeatThread ...
