server/client/Register.java

//---PACKAGE DECLARATION---
package uk.org.iscream.cms.server.client;

//---IMPORTS---
import uk.org.iscream.cms.server.util.*;
import uk.org.iscream.cms.server.componentmanager.*;

/**
 * The Register class holds theshold values,
 * the last level of alert for each attribute for a monitor
 * and the time of last alert sent for each alert level.
 *
 * This class is used by monitor classes so they can determine
 * how often they should send alerts when breaching alert levels.
 * It also stores (and keeps uptodate (via the configuration proxy)
 * the threshold values for the monitor.
 *
 * @author  $Author: ajm4 $
 * @version $Id: Register.java,v 1.16 2001/03/22 02:08:58 ajm4 Exp $
 */
public class Register {

//---FINAL ATTRIBUTES---

    /**
     * The current CVS revision of this class
     */
    public static final String REVISION = "$Revision: 1.16 $";
    
//---STATIC METHODS---

//---CONSTRUCTORS---
    
    /**
     * Construct a Register with the hostname and monitorName 
     * (for obtaining the threshold values).
     * This constructs a generic register for a specific monitor.
     *
     * @param hostname the hostname this register is for
     * @param monitorName the monitor this register is for
     */
    public Register(String hostname, String monitorName) {
        this(hostname, monitorName, null);    
    }

    /**
     * Construct a Register with the hostname and monitorName 
     * (for obtaining the threshold values).
     * This constructs a register for a specific attribute check
     * by a monitor.
     *
     * @param hostname the hostname this register is for
     * @param monitorName the monitor this register is for
     * @param attributeName the specific attribute this register is for
     */
    public Register(String hostname, String monitorName, String attributeName) {
        _hostname = hostname;
        _monitorName = monitorName;
        _attributeName = attributeName;
        _lastAlertLevel = 0;
        _lastThresholdLevel = 0;
        _initialAlertTime= 0;
        _lastAlertTimeout = 0;
        _times = new long[Alert.alertLevels.length];
        // initialise the arrays to 0
        for(int x = 0; x < Alert.alertLevels.length; x++) {
            _times[x] = 0;
        }
    }
        

//---PUBLIC METHODS---

//---PRIVATE METHODS---

    /**
     * Obtains a threshold value from the configuration for a given level.
     * The attribute name specifies which property to get.
     * eg, attributeName = idle it will look for
     *     Monitor.<monitor name>.idle.threshold.<alert level>
     * eg, attributeName = null
     *     Monitor.<monitor name>.threshold.<alert level>
     *
     * Note that if its null, this will get the threshold for the monitor
     * as a whole, not the specific attribute.
     *
     * @param level the alert level to get the attribute for
     * @param attributeName the attribute to get the threshold for
     *
     * @return the threshold obtained
     */    
    private String getThresholdConfig(int level, String attributeName) throws PropertyNotFoundException {
        String temp = "";
        if (attributeName != null) {
            temp = "." + attributeName;
        }
        return _cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor." + _monitorName + temp + ".threshold." + Alert.thresholdLevels[level]);
    }

//---ACCESSOR/MUTATOR METHODS---
    
    /**
     * Gets the last alert level
     *
     * @return the last alert level
     */
    public int getLastAlertLevel() {
        return _lastAlertLevel;
    }
    
    /**
     * Sets the last threshold level
     *
     * @param level the new last threshold level
     */
    public void setLastThresholdLevel(int level) {
        _lastThresholdLevel = level;
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the last threshold level
     *
     * @return the last threshold level
     */
    public int getLastThresholdLevel() {
        return _lastThresholdLevel;
    }
    
    /**
     * Sets the last alert level
     *
     * Note that if this is setting to an OK
     * level alert, it resets _maxLevelCount.
     *
     * This also sets the "initialAlertTime" 
     * if the next alert after OK is set.
     * And resets it to 0 if it IS an OK.
     *
     * @param level the new last alert level
     */
    public void setLastAlertLevel(int level) {
        _lastAlertLevel = level;
        if (level == Alert.alertOK) {
            _maxLevelCount = 0;
            // we won't do this, so OK's still have the initialAlertTime
            // of the original alert they're OK'ing
            //_initialAlertTime = 0;
        }
        if (level == Alert.alertOK + 1) {
            _initialAlertTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        }
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the time an alert was sent at the given level.
     *
     * @param level the alert level to get
     *
     * @return the time last sent
     */
    public long getTimeLastSent() {
        return _times[getLastAlertLevel()];
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the time an alert was sent at the given level.
     *
     * @param level the alert level to get
     * @param value the new time
     */
    public void setTimeLastSent(long value) {
        _times[getLastAlertLevel()] = value;
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the threshold value for the given
     * level of alert.
     *
     * If there is no alert threshold for a 
     * given level, this returns -1.0
     *
     * @param level the alert level
     */
    public double getThreshold(int level) {
        // -1.0 means we don't use an alert level
        double threshold = -1.0;
        try {
            String thresholdString = "";
            try {
                thresholdString = getThresholdConfig(level, _attributeName);
            } catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
                thresholdString = getThresholdConfig(level, null);
            }
            threshold = Double.parseDouble(thresholdString);
        } catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
            threshold = -1.0;
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            threshold = -1.0;
        }
        return threshold;
    }
    
    /**
     * Gets the alert timeout value for the given
     * level of alert.  This value is in millis,
     * and is converted from the value in the config,
     * which should be seconds.
     *
     * Note that if the alert timeout for the current monitor
     * is not configured, it will try to obtain the default
     * timeout for all Monitor's.  If there is no alert timeout
     * for either the monitor or a default setting this returns 0.
     *
     * Note that this is dependant on the threshold value
     * given, the timeout is obatined from the config, then
     * divided by the threshold value, this allows alerts to
     * progress faster should a higher threshold value be passed
     *
     * @param level the alert level
     * @param thresholdLevel the threshold leve we are on
     */
    public long getAlertTimeout(int level) {
        // 0 means we don't use this value
        long timeout = 0;
        try {
            String timeoutString;
            try {
                timeoutString = _cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor." + _monitorName + ".alertTimeout." + Alert.alertLevels[level]);
            } catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
                // if there is no timeout for the monitor
                // check for a default
                timeoutString = _cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor.alertTimeout." + Alert.alertLevels[level]);
            }    
            int threshold = getLastThresholdLevel();
            if (threshold > 0) {
                timeout = (Long.parseLong(timeoutString) / threshold) * 1000;
            }
        } catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
            timeout = 0;
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            timeout = 0;
        }
        return timeout;
    }
    
    /**
     * Either advances to the next alert level, or if
     * the maximum alert level has been reached, simply returns
     * that.
     *
     * Note this method will NEVER reach the last alert level
     * in the list, this is assumed to be FINAL, and special
     * logic is in place to handle that.
     *
     */
    public int getNextAlertLevel() {
        if((getLastAlertLevel() + 1) > (Alert.alertLevels.length - 2)) {
            return getLastAlertLevel();
        }
        return getLastAlertLevel() + 1;
    }

    /**
     * Gets the timeout value of the last alert
     * sent
     *
     * @return the last timeout value
     */
    public long getLastAlertTimeout() {
        return _lastAlertTimeout;
    }
    
    /**
     * Sets the timeout value of the last alert
     * sent
     *
     * @param timeout the new value
     */
    public void setLastAlertTimeout(long timeout) {
        _lastAlertTimeout = timeout;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the time that the first alert was sent
     * for an attribute that has passed a threshold value
     *
     */
    public long getInitialAlertTime() {
        return _initialAlertTime;
    }

    /**
     * Advances the alert level to the next one up.
     *
     * This keeps track of the number of the number
     * of times the highest NON-FINAL alert level
     * has been reached.  Note this isn't a specific
     * level, just the highest, so you could configure
     * more levels and not affect this.
     *
     * If the count exceeds the number of times
     * set in the configuration, it escalates to 
     * a FINAL alert if we're using FINAL's.
     *
     * It determines if to use FINAL's from the config
     * entry reachFINALcount, when the count exceeds
     * this value, it escalates to a FINAL.  If that attribute
     * is mis-read or is not configured.  It will NEVER reach
     * a FINAL.
     *
     */
    public void escalateAlert() {
        // don't escalate if we're already on the last alert
        if(getLastAlertLevel() != Alert.alertLevels.length -1) {
            setLastAlertLevel(getNextAlertLevel());
        }
        try {
            // note if we fail to get this value, we won't process the res of this
            int reachFINALcount = Integer.parseInt(_cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor." + _monitorName + ".reachFINALcount"));
            if (getLastAlertLevel() == Alert.alertLevels.length - 2) {
                _maxLevelCount++;
                if(_maxLevelCount > reachFINALcount) {
                    setLastAlertLevel(Alert.alertFINAL);
                }
            }
        } catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
            // we NEVER reach FINAL in this case
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            // we NEVER reach FINAL in this case
        }
    }

//---ATTRIBUTES---

    /**
     * The host this register is for
     */
    private String _hostname;
    
    /**
     * The monitor this register is for
     */
    private String _monitorName;
    
    /**
     * The attribute name, as obtained from
     * the configuration.
     * eg, idle or /var
     */
    private String _attributeName;

    /**
     * An array of last alert levels for
     * each attribute this register is looking
     * after.
     */
    private int _lastAlertLevel;
    
    /**
     * An array of last threshold levels for
     * each attribute this register is looking
     * after.
     */
    private int _lastThresholdLevel;
    
    /**
     * An array of last alert timeout levels for
     * each attribute this register is looking
     * after.
     */
    private long _lastAlertTimeout;
    
    /**
     * An array of arrays containing
     * time an alert of each level
     * was last sent for each attribute.
     */
    private long[] _times;
    
    /**
     * Initial times that an alert was first
     * raised.
     */
    private long _initialAlertTime;

    /**
     * A reference to the configuration proxy in use
     */
    private ConfigurationProxy _cp = ConfigurationProxy.getInstance();
    
    /**
     * The number of times the maximum level alert
     * has occured IN A ROW, this is escalated by
     * the escalate(int) method, and reset by the 
     * setLastAlertLevel(int, int) method
     */
    private int _maxLevelCount = 0;

//---STATIC ATTRIBUTES---

}
Revision:	1.17
Committed:	Tue May 29 17:02:34 2001 UTC (23 years ago) by tdb
Branch:	MAIN
Branch point for:	SERVER_PIRCBOT
Changes since 1.16:	+5 -5 lines
Log Message:	Major change in the java package naming. This has been held off for some time now, but it really needed doing. The future packaging of all i-scream products will be; uk.org.iscream.<product>.<subpart>.* In the case of the central monitoring system server this will be; uk.org.iscream.cms.server.* The whole server has been changed to follow this structure, and tested to a smallish extent. Further changes in other parts of the CMS will follow.
#	User	Rev	Content
1	ajm	1.1	//---PACKAGE DECLARATION---
2	tdb	1.17	package uk.org.iscream.cms.server.client;
3	ajm	1.1
4			//---IMPORTS---
5	tdb	1.17	import uk.org.iscream.cms.server.util.*;
6			import uk.org.iscream.cms.server.componentmanager.*;
7	ajm	1.1
8			/**
9	ajm	1.2	* The Register class holds theshold values,
10			* the last level of alert for each attribute for a monitor
11	ajm	1.11	* and the time of last alert sent for each alert level.
12	ajm	1.1	*
13	ajm	1.2	* This class is used by monitor classes so they can determine
14			* how often they should send alerts when breaching alert levels.
15			* It also stores (and keeps uptodate (via the configuration proxy)
16			* the threshold values for the monitor.
17			*
18	ajm	1.15	* @author $Author: ajm4 $
19	tdb	1.17	* @version $Id: Register.java,v 1.16 2001/03/22 02:08:58 ajm4 Exp $
20	ajm	1.1	*/
21			public class Register {
22
23			//---FINAL ATTRIBUTES---
24
25			/**
26			* The current CVS revision of this class
27			*/
28	tdb	1.17	public static final String REVISION = "$Revision: 1.16 $";
29	ajm	1.1
30			//---STATIC METHODS---
31
32			//---CONSTRUCTORS---
33
34			/**
35	ajm	1.2	* Construct a Register with the hostname and monitorName
36	ajm	1.11	* (for obtaining the threshold values).
37	ajm	1.14	* This constructs a generic register for a specific monitor.
38	ajm	1.1	*
39	ajm	1.2	* @param hostname the hostname this register is for
40			* @param monitorName the monitor this register is for
41	ajm	1.14	*/
42			public Register(String hostname, String monitorName) {
43			this(hostname, monitorName, null);
44			}
45	ajm	1.11
46	ajm	1.14	/**
47			* Construct a Register with the hostname and monitorName
48			* (for obtaining the threshold values).
49			* This constructs a register for a specific attribute check
50			* by a monitor.
51			*
52			* @param hostname the hostname this register is for
53			* @param monitorName the monitor this register is for
54			* @param attributeName the specific attribute this register is for
55	ajm	1.1	*/
56	ajm	1.14	public Register(String hostname, String monitorName, String attributeName) {
57	ajm	1.2	_hostname = hostname;
58			_monitorName = monitorName;
59	ajm	1.14	_attributeName = attributeName;
60	ajm	1.11	_lastAlertLevel = 0;
61			_lastThresholdLevel = 0;
62			_initialAlertTime= 0;
63			_lastAlertTimeout = 0;
64			_times = new long[Alert.alertLevels.length];
65	ajm	1.2	// initialise the arrays to 0
66	ajm	1.11	for(int x = 0; x < Alert.alertLevels.length; x++) {
67			_times[x] = 0;
68	ajm	1.1	}
69			}
70	ajm	1.14
71	ajm	1.1
72			//---PUBLIC METHODS---
73
74			//---PRIVATE METHODS---
75
76	ajm	1.14	/**
77			* Obtains a threshold value from the configuration for a given level.
78			* The attribute name specifies which property to get.
79			* eg, attributeName = idle it will look for
80			* Monitor.<monitor name>.idle.threshold.<alert level>
81			* eg, attributeName = null
82			* Monitor.<monitor name>.threshold.<alert level>
83			*
84			* Note that if its null, this will get the threshold for the monitor
85			* as a whole, not the specific attribute.
86			*
87			* @param level the alert level to get the attribute for
88			* @param attributeName the attribute to get the threshold for
89			*
90			* @return the threshold obtained
91			*/
92			private String getThresholdConfig(int level, String attributeName) throws PropertyNotFoundException {
93			String temp = "";
94			if (attributeName != null) {
95			temp = "." + attributeName;
96			}
97			return _cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor." + _monitorName + temp + ".threshold." + Alert.thresholdLevels[level]);
98			}
99
100	ajm	1.1	//---ACCESSOR/MUTATOR METHODS---
101
102	ajm	1.2	/**
103	ajm	1.11	* Gets the last alert level
104	ajm	1.2	*
105			* @return the last alert level
106			*/
107	ajm	1.11	public int getLastAlertLevel() {
108			return _lastAlertLevel;
109	ajm	1.2	}
110
111			/**
112	ajm	1.11	* Sets the last threshold level
113	ajm	1.2	*
114			* @param level the new last threshold level
115			*/
116	ajm	1.11	public void setLastThresholdLevel(int level) {
117			_lastThresholdLevel = level;
118	ajm	1.2	}
119
120	ajm	1.11	/**
121			* Gets the last threshold level
122	ajm	1.2	*
123			* @return the last threshold level
124			*/
125	ajm	1.11	public int getLastThresholdLevel() {
126			return _lastThresholdLevel;
127	ajm	1.2	}
128
129			/**
130	ajm	1.11	* Sets the last alert level
131	ajm	1.2	*
132	ajm	1.5	* Note that if this is setting to an OK
133			* level alert, it resets _maxLevelCount.
134			*
135	ajm	1.6	* This also sets the "initialAlertTime"
136			* if the next alert after OK is set.
137			* And resets it to 0 if it IS an OK.
138			*
139	ajm	1.2	* @param level the new last alert level
140			*/
141	ajm	1.11	public void setLastAlertLevel(int level) {
142			_lastAlertLevel = level;
143	ajm	1.5	if (level == Alert.alertOK) {
144			_maxLevelCount = 0;
145	tdb	1.13	// we won't do this, so OK's still have the initialAlertTime
146			// of the original alert they're OK'ing
147			//_initialAlertTime = 0;
148	ajm	1.6	}
149			if (level == Alert.alertOK + 1) {
150	ajm	1.11	_initialAlertTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
151	ajm	1.5	}
152	ajm	1.2	}
153
154			/**
155	ajm	1.11	* Gets the time an alert was sent at the given level.
156	ajm	1.2	*
157			* @param level the alert level to get
158			*
159			* @return the time last sent
160			*/
161	ajm	1.11	public long getTimeLastSent() {
162			return _times[getLastAlertLevel()];
163	ajm	1.2	}
164
165			/**
166	ajm	1.11	* Gets the time an alert was sent at the given level.
167	ajm	1.2	*
168			* @param level the alert level to get
169			* @param value the new time
170			*/
171	ajm	1.11	public void setTimeLastSent(long value) {
172			_times[getLastAlertLevel()] = value;
173	ajm	1.2	}
174
175			/**
176			* Gets the threshold value for the given
177			* level of alert.
178			*
179			* If there is no alert threshold for a
180			* given level, this returns -1.0
181			*
182			* @param level the alert level
183			*/
184			public double getThreshold(int level) {
185	tdb	1.4	// -1.0 means we don't use an alert level
186	ajm	1.2	double threshold = -1.0;
187	tdb	1.4	try {
188	ajm	1.15	String thresholdString = "";
189			try {
190			thresholdString = getThresholdConfig(level, _attributeName);
191			} catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
192			thresholdString = getThresholdConfig(level, null);
193			}
194	tdb	1.4	threshold = Double.parseDouble(thresholdString);
195			} catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
196			threshold = -1.0;
197			} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
198			threshold = -1.0;
199	ajm	1.2	}
200			return threshold;
201			}
202
203			/**
204			* Gets the alert timeout value for the given
205			* level of alert. This value is in millis,
206			* and is converted from the value in the config,
207			* which should be seconds.
208			*
209	ajm	1.16	* Note that if the alert timeout for the current monitor
210			* is not configured, it will try to obtain the default
211			* timeout for all Monitor's. If there is no alert timeout
212			* for either the monitor or a default setting this returns 0.
213			*
214	ajm	1.2	* Note that this is dependant on the threshold value
215			* given, the timeout is obatined from the config, then
216			* divided by the threshold value, this allows alerts to
217			* progress faster should a higher threshold value be passed
218			*
219			* @param level the alert level
220			* @param thresholdLevel the threshold leve we are on
221			*/
222	ajm	1.11	public long getAlertTimeout(int level) {
223	tdb	1.4	// 0 means we don't use this value
224	ajm	1.2	long timeout = 0;
225	tdb	1.4	try {
226	ajm	1.16	String timeoutString;
227			try {
228			timeoutString = _cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor." + _monitorName + ".alertTimeout." + Alert.alertLevels[level]);
229			} catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
230			// if there is no timeout for the monitor
231			// check for a default
232			timeoutString = _cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor.alertTimeout." + Alert.alertLevels[level]);
233			}
234	ajm	1.11	int threshold = getLastThresholdLevel();
235	tdb	1.4	if (threshold > 0) {
236			timeout = (Long.parseLong(timeoutString) / threshold) * 1000;
237	ajm	1.2	}
238	tdb	1.4	} catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
239			timeout = 0;
240			} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
241			timeout = 0;
242	ajm	1.2	}
243			return timeout;
244	ajm	1.1	}
245
246	ajm	1.2	/**
247			* Either advances to the next alert level, or if
248			* the maximum alert level has been reached, simply returns
249			* that.
250			*
251	ajm	1.5	* Note this method will NEVER reach the last alert level
252			* in the list, this is assumed to be FINAL, and special
253			* logic is in place to handle that.
254			*
255	ajm	1.2	*/
256	ajm	1.11	public int getNextAlertLevel() {
257			if((getLastAlertLevel() + 1) > (Alert.alertLevels.length - 2)) {
258			return getLastAlertLevel();
259	ajm	1.2	}
260	ajm	1.11	return getLastAlertLevel() + 1;
261	ajm	1.2	}
262
263			/**
264	ajm	1.3	* Gets the timeout value of the last alert
265			* sent
266			*
267			* @return the last timeout value
268			*/
269	ajm	1.11	public long getLastAlertTimeout() {
270			return _lastAlertTimeout;
271	ajm	1.3	}
272
273			/**
274			* Sets the timeout value of the last alert
275			* sent
276			*
277			* @param timeout the new value
278			*/
279	ajm	1.11	public void setLastAlertTimeout(long timeout) {
280			_lastAlertTimeout = timeout;
281	ajm	1.3	}
282
283			/**
284	ajm	1.6	* Returns the time that the first alert was sent
285			* for an attribute that has passed a threshold value
286			*
287			*/
288	ajm	1.11	public long getInitialAlertTime() {
289			return _initialAlertTime;
290	ajm	1.6	}
291
292			/**
293	ajm	1.2	* Advances the alert level to the next one up.
294			*
295	ajm	1.5	* This keeps track of the number of the number
296			* of times the highest NON-FINAL alert level
297			* has been reached. Note this isn't a specific
298			* level, just the highest, so you could configure
299			* more levels and not affect this.
300			*
301			* If the count exceeds the number of times
302			* set in the configuration, it escalates to
303			* a FINAL alert if we're using FINAL's.
304			*
305			* It determines if to use FINAL's from the config
306			* entry reachFINALcount, when the count exceeds
307			* this value, it escalates to a FINAL. If that attribute
308			* is mis-read or is not configured. It will NEVER reach
309			* a FINAL.
310			*
311	ajm	1.2	*/
312	ajm	1.11	public void escalateAlert() {
313	tdb	1.7	// don't escalate if we're already on the last alert
314	ajm	1.11	if(getLastAlertLevel() != Alert.alertLevels.length -1) {
315			setLastAlertLevel(getNextAlertLevel());
316	tdb	1.7	}
317	ajm	1.5	try {
318			// note if we fail to get this value, we won't process the res of this
319			int reachFINALcount = Integer.parseInt(_cp.getProperty("Host." + _hostname, "Monitor." + _monitorName + ".reachFINALcount"));
320	ajm	1.11	if (getLastAlertLevel() == Alert.alertLevels.length - 2) {
321	ajm	1.5	_maxLevelCount++;
322	tdb	1.10	if(_maxLevelCount > reachFINALcount) {
323	ajm	1.11	setLastAlertLevel(Alert.alertFINAL);
324	tdb	1.8	}
325	ajm	1.5	}
326			} catch (PropertyNotFoundException e) {
327			// we NEVER reach FINAL in this case
328			} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
329			// we NEVER reach FINAL in this case
330			}
331	ajm	1.1	}
332
333			//---ATTRIBUTES---
334
335	ajm	1.2	/**
336			* The host this register is for
337			*/
338			private String _hostname;
339
340			/**
341			* The monitor this register is for
342			*/
343			private String _monitorName;
344	ajm	1.14
345			/**
346			* The attribute name, as obtained from
347			* the configuration.
348			* eg, idle or /var
349			*/
350			private String _attributeName;
351	ajm	1.2
352			/**
353			* An array of last alert levels for
354			* each attribute this register is looking
355			* after.
356			*/
357	ajm	1.11	private int _lastAlertLevel;
358	ajm	1.2
359			/**
360			* An array of last threshold levels for
361			* each attribute this register is looking
362			* after.
363			*/
364	ajm	1.11	private int _lastThresholdLevel;
365	ajm	1.3
366			/**
367			* An array of last alert timeout levels for
368			* each attribute this register is looking
369			* after.
370			*/
371	ajm	1.11	private long _lastAlertTimeout;
372	ajm	1.2
373			/**
374			* An array of arrays containing
375			* time an alert of each level
376			* was last sent for each attribute.
377			*/
378	ajm	1.11	private long[] _times;
379	ajm	1.6
380			/**
381			* Initial times that an alert was first
382			* raised.
383			*/
384	ajm	1.11	private long _initialAlertTime;
385	ajm	1.2
386			/**
387			* A reference to the configuration proxy in use
388			*/
389			private ConfigurationProxy _cp = ConfigurationProxy.getInstance();
390	ajm	1.5
391			/**
392			* The number of times the maximum level alert
393			* has occured IN A ROW, this is escalated by
394			* the escalate(int) method, and reset by the
395			* setLastAlertLevel(int, int) method
396			*/
397			private int _maxLevelCount = 0;
398	ajm	1.1
399			//---STATIC ATTRIBUTES---
400
401			}