[evla-sw-discuss] Terminology

[Kevin Ryan]

Not to advocate using a requirements specification, but this 
is addressed in section 3.2.4 of the Antenna Monitor & Control 
Subsystem Requirements Specification Rev 2 of April 2002 (based 
on an earlier version in 2001).*

It is in agreement with the correlator folk and also refers to 
them as 'alerts' -- probably because not all alerts are necessarily
alarms (i.e. alarms are subsets of alerts).

Kevin

> From: Barry Clark <bclark at aoc.nrao.edu>
> 
> One thing that came up at the correlator software meeting.  What we
> have been calling "alarms" they are calling "alerts", which they claim
> comes from earlier documentation of ours.  In any event, I think the
> term "alert" is more descriptive of what we mean, and we should start
> using it instead of "alarm".

*Note: Of course this same spec also prohibits the use of in-house 
       proprietary hardware and software for things such as the MIB 
       and data transmission protocols so it appears that adhering to
       it is optional.