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Input plugins are queried periodically. They somehow acquire the current value
of whatever they where designed to work with and submit these values back to
reads the current cpu-counters of time spent in the various modes (user,
system, nice, ...) and dispatches these counters to the daemon.
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Output plugins get the dispatched values from the daemon and does something
with them. Common applications are writing to RRD-files, CSV-files or sending