[evla-sw-discuss] Alarm Handling and Logging

[Bryan Butler]

the concept of periodic retransmission worries me - lots of potentially 
unnecessary traffic.  i thought what bill was talking about was slightly 
different - encapsulating the alert state in the monitor point value itself?

	-bryan


On 2/8/05 18:13, Sonja Vrcic wrote:
> 
>>We are discussing the
>>possibility of including the alert state for a monitor
>>point in the periodic multicast of the monitor point's value.
>>This scheme would be very robust w.r.t. dropped packets, and
>>would make determination of alert states simple and
>>straightforward.
>>  
>>
> I tend to agree that periodical  retransmission of alarms/alerts is in 
> general a good idea. Since we all use the communication infrastructure 
> that does not guarantee delivery,  this should probably be implemented 
> by all devices.
>