Customers define Relators to associate Monitoring Groups with a Monitoring Engine, which controls where the nodes included in Monitoring Groups should be monitored.

Mother/Daughter Supervising Engines determine if a node should be monitored locally using the following logic:

1. If associated with an explicit Monitoring Engine under control of a Supervising Engine of the same site, the node should be handled

   
   
   
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2. If associated Monitoring Engine is {Dynamic} or {Argent Motor}, check the default Monitoring Engine of the Network Group that the node belongs to. If the Monitoring Engine is under control of a Supervising Engine of the same site, the node should be handled.
   
   
   
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3. Otherwise, the node belongs to another site, and should NOT be handled locally.