- - MON Core, which includes Message Bus and Models
- - Plugin drivers for various VIMs
+* MON Central: Handles vim accounts registration and alarms CRUD operations, through messages in the Kafka bus.
+* MON Collector: Collects metrics from VIMs and VNFs and then exports them to a TSDB. It uses a plugin model both for collectors and for backends.
+* MON Evaluator: Evaluates alarms and sends notifications through the Kafka bus when they trigger.
+
+
+Supported Collector Plugins
+***************************
+
+* OpenStack: Support for Gnocchi and legacy Ceilometer telemetry stacks.
+* VROPS: Support for VIO and VCD.
+* AWS: TBD
+
+Configuration
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+
+Configuration is handled by the file [mon.yaml] (osm_mon/core/mon.yaml). You can pass a personalized configuration file
+through the `--config-file` flag.
+
+Example:
+
+ osm-mon-server --config-file your-config.yaml