The innovator will search for alternate courses, which may prove easier in the long run and are bound to be more interesting and challenging even if they lead to dead ends.

For situations when, for example, the agent collector cannot be run because the connectivity between the workbench and agent is compromised, an alternate solution is available.

The mechanism (out of scope for this pattern) would run periodically to remove entity records that shouldn't be migrated from an alternate source to the preferred source.