[evla-sw-discuss] Names

[Ken Sowinski]

> From rmoeser at nrao.edu  Fri Jun 10 09:44:39 2005
> 
> > Just a follow up on this topic.
> > Since we switched to using DCS instead of antennas IDs, the archive and 
> > alarm data multicatsed by the CMP will have a DCS number instead of the 
> > antenna number. The receiving application/ higher software (archive, 
> > checker or other) need to translate the DCS number to the antenna number 
> > based on the table that Ken is referring too.
> 
> Tools like archiver are meant to receive XML encoded data and as long as the 
> data is formatted correctly, the data is parsed and mapped to the database. 
> This data is *not* inspected and massaged before it is dumped to the 
> database and it should not be. Rather than making all higher level apps 
> aware of this mapping, it would make more sense to have the mapping applied 
> only *once* at the CMP. The CMP would simply set the location attribute to 
> 'Antenna 15' or 'va15' instead of inserting the dcs number.
> 
> --Rich

Has this question been settled yet?  If so, what will be done?

Ken