===== Equipments =====

In Zebrix Control, an **equipment** refers to any device or service accessible from your local network or via a cloud API.

This may include, for example:
  * Professional displays  
  * Video conferencing systems  
  * Microphones  
  * Sensors  
  * Printers  
  * Cloud services exposing an API  

These equipments can be supervised in different ways by the **probe**:
  * HTTP / REST APIs  
  * TCP protocols  
  * SNMP  
  * Gateways  
  * Cloud connectors  

==== Interaction with equipments ====

The probe communicates with equipments in order to:

  * Collect **metrics** (technical measurements)
  * Execute **commands** (reboot, power on/off, etc.)

Each equipment is associated with one or more **drivers** that define how this communication is performed.

You can:

  * Select the relevant metrics for your environment
  * Define the collection frequency
  * Adjust the supervision level according to equipment criticality

==== Metrics and equipment status ====

The collected metrics allow the system to automatically determine the **equipment status**.

These statuses then generate **alerts**, which can be used for:
  * Real-time monitoring
  * Incident generation
  * Reporting
  * Performance analysis

👉 In summary: metrics feed alerts, and alerts define the health status of your infrastructure.

==== Equipment not supported? ====

If your equipment is not yet supported in Zebrix Control, please contact us to evaluate its integration.

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