docs: def report_table_metrics(self, metrics, results, tags):
          '''
          For each of the metrics specified as needing to be resolved with mib,
          gather the tags requested in the instance conf for each row.
  
          Submit the results to the aggregator.
          '''
  
          for metric in metrics:
              forced_type = metric.get('forced_type')
              if 'table' in metric:
                  index_based_tags = []
                  column_based_tags = []
                  for metric_tag in metric.get('metric_tags', []):
                      tag_key = metric_tag['tag']
                      if 'index' in metric_tag:
                          index_based_tags.append((tag_key, metric_tag.get('index')))
                      elif 'column' in metric_tag:
                          column_based_tags.append((tag_key, metric_tag.get('column')))
                      else:
                          self.log.warning("No indication on what value to use for this tag")
  
                  for value_to_collect in metric.get("symbols", []):
                      for index, val in iteritems(results[value_to_collect]):
                          metric_tags = tags + self.get_index_tags(index, results, index_based_tags, column_based_tags)
                          self.submit_metric(value_to_collect, val, forced_type, metric_tags)
  
              elif 'symbol' in metric:
                  name = metric['symbol']
                  result = list(results[name].items())
                  if len(result) > 1:
                      self.log.warning("Several rows corresponding while the metric is supposed to be a scalar")
                      continue
                  val = result[0][1]
                  metric_tags = tags
                  if metric.get('metric_tags'):
                      metric_tags = metric_tags + metric.get('metric_tags')
                  self.submit_metric(name, val, forced_type, metric_tags)
              elif 'OID' in metric:
                  pass  # This one is already handled by the other batch of requests
              else:
                  raise Exception('Unsupported metric in config file: {}'.format(metric))