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Take a look at these two datasources: https://github.com/sweenig/lmcommunity/tree/master/ProcessMonitoring. I just realized i haven't done any documentation on that part of the repo, so give me a few minutes and i'll commit some instructions.
It doesn't change how many resources are used to monitor a process, but it does do what i think you were referring to in the nightmare scenario above. They let you specify an include and an exclude filter as properties on the device level or on the group level. So, you can just provide a regex expression to dictate what you want to include and what you want to exclude in active discovery.
