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About sensors

Probes are used to identify and classify the device and gather information about the device, but there should be some mechanism to process the data, processing the data is taken care of by the sensors.

Let's take an example of mail coming in. In a post office, everyday they receive a bulk load of mail for a town, there are multiple post officers who will physically sit and process this mail based on area and street. Similarly, the data received by the port probes are like mail received, and sensors are the post officers that process the data of where to deliver and what to do.

Depending on the type of probe, the sensor is triggered accordingly.

Now let's see how to configure sensors and what the important attributes available ...