The EAA uses camonitors for both SCAN and MONITOR requests.
> If that's the case (noticeable change of behavior compared to the older archivers) - what is the difference between the two options?
I don't think it's a change from the Channel Archiver nor the RDB-based archive engine.
MONITOR: Channel uses monitor (for ADEL threshold) and tries to save every received value.
SCAN: Channel uses monitor (for ADEL threshold) and then saves the most recently received value every SCAN period.
SCAN does not perform a get or get-callback every SCAN period, and it also doesn't save the time of when it was scanned.
Instead, it would for example scan once every 5 minutes, and then write whatever the most recently received sample was .. if it changed.
-Kay