[evla-sw-discuss] severity of alerts

[Rich Moeser]

> 
>> Will this be in "Checker" ?
> 
> 
> yes, in my mind.  whether it is a separate "piece" (or program out in 
> front) of Checker is TBD (by rich, i guess, since he's implementing all 
> of this).  Checker is where errors are reported, so it might as well be 
> where the heirarchy is implemented.

The hierarchy should be implemented, not at Checker, but at the
different layers of the hierarchy. Why should Checker contain knowledge
for all antenna objects and subsystems? That's how the old VLA Checker
program works. It's the subsystems that should know if and when
something is wrong and they should report it themselves.

I'd say we can use this approach as a short term solution but it is
likely a mistake for the long term.

--Rich