planned-, active- and finished-obervations.
Not fully tested yet.

GCFCommon has only 'myHostname' function left. Will be moved to LCS/Common.

ObservationControl now creates the top-level observation datapoint.
Note: code becomes obsolete with navigator 2 because that one uses claimManagers.

Hostname must now be specified.

Added extra timer that depends on the integration-time of the observation that
will force a kill of the underlying software.

Changed the MACcontrollers so that they now work with the new RTDB layer
in stead of the PAL layer. Fully tested.

Quality update.

removed custumPrep from this directory

Scheduler start 1 observation per poll cycle to avoid sync problems in PA.

Bugfix. Calling setState now with CONNECTED iso CREATED.

Starting the same observation over and over is not a problem any more.
Set SAS to 'aborted' when observation was stopt with an error.

Uses 'forcedQuitTimer' for guaranteed stop 5 econds after stoptime is reached.
Implemented begin of quality criteria.

Update to use the renewed datapoints.

Using treeID as instancenumber to be able to run multiple ObservationControllers
simultaneously.

Made MACScheduler aware of state of ObservationControllers. The major state-
changes are even passed to the SAS database.

Updating OTB database (as a test).

Modification for better support of the PVSS database.

Extended PVSS propertySet with a couple of fields.

Controller correctly updates it state now after its child controllers are ready.

Weekly update.

PVSS related enhancements.

PVSS related enhancements.

State is also set to 'stopped' when program is killed.
customPrep script does not create any datapoints anymore. The DPs are now
part of the install procedure of a PVSS-LOFAR database.

ObservationController now also creates the top DP of the observation:
LOFAR_ObsSW_Observation%d.
Fixed some bugs in interpreting the PVSS values.

Modified ObservationControl to meet the new functionality in Parent- and
ChildControl that allow non-regular state changes by merging in the missing
states.

Weekly update after a week of testing the controller chain.

Some minor changes.

Moved startChildController from ObservationControl to ChildControl so it is
available in all controller.

Installed signalhandler for PVSS update during quit.

State of the MACScheduler is written to PVSS during destruction. A signal handler is installed
(late enough to override the GCF signal handlers!) that triggers the transition to the
finishing state. In that state, the property is written and a timer is installed because
PVSS database writes are asynchronous. When the timer goes off (1 second) the MACScheduler
is closed.