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Hi,

I'm a little bit "lost in space" 

A "collector" object has two Data Collection tabs. On one I can create normal DCIs. The second one looks like I can link DCIs from other objects to the collector. I looked around in the Mangement client but did not find any way to get a DCI in there.

The documentation at https://netxms.org/documentation/adminguide doesn't list the collector object at all...

What's the correct way to link DCIs to this object? Or am I on the completely wrong way?

Thanks in advance for any help.

best...
Detlev

If you check a container, there'll be Data Collection tab there which allows to search DCIs on child nodes.
Now, collector is basically a container, but with data collection. So one "Data collection" is for DCI search and the other for data collection like it is on a node. As for the naming, it could probably be a bit less confusing

Data collection is basically limited to script or web services, or to other sources if you do Source node override in DCI properties.

Thanks for the explanations. Now I understand...

best...
Detlev