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 * Copyright 2016 Open Networking Laboratory
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 *
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package org.onosproject.metrics.reporter;

/**
 * A metric report that reports all metrics value to third party monitor.
 */
public interface MetricsReporter {

    /**
     * Starts to report a set of metrics to the monitoring server.
     */
    void startReport();

    /**
     * Stops reporting metrics.
     */
    void stopReport();
}