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package org.onosproject.incubator.net.faultmanagement.alarm;

import org.onosproject.net.DeviceId;
import org.onosproject.net.provider.Provider;

/**
 * Abstraction of an entity capable of supplying alarms collected from
 * network devices.
 */
public interface AlarmProvider extends Provider {

    /**
     * Triggers an asynchronous discovery of the alarms on the specified device,
     * intended to refresh internal alarm model for the device. An indirect
     * result of this should be a event sent later with discovery result
     * ie a set of alarms.
     *
     * @param deviceId ID of device to be probed
     */
    void triggerProbe(DeviceId deviceId);
}