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- Fault events should always use a push model, and the mechanism over which events are sent needs to be reliable.
- Telemetry, can be polled or pushed (could be polled to spread the load on the collection side).
- Network (over)load should be taken into consideration as regards which model to use (push vs pull), you don't want to destabilize the network. push is more scalable overall and preferred for fault management.
Agent configuration
Should be able to dynamically:
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* get the timing information for the agent and do aTiming sync if required.
Timestamping support
Events Requirements
Timing:
Events must be detected within a 10ms interval in order to allow for a 40ms failover time.
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