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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2002-2019 CERN for the benefit of the ATLAS collaboration
+#
+
+def TauMonitoringConfig(flags):
+    from AthenaConfiguration.ComponentAccumulator import ComponentAccumulator
+    from .DQTDataFlowMonAlg import DQTDataFlowMonAlgConfig
+    from .DQTDetSynchMonAlg import DQTDetSynchMonAlgConfig
+    
+    result = ComponentAccumulator()
+    result.merge(DQTDataFlowMonAlgConfig(flags))
+
+    # really should only configure when input is RAW
+    result.merge(DQTDetSynchMonAlgConfig(flags))
+
+    return result