[Orca-dev] Re: Mapping live_rules state to numerical value

[Adrian Cockcroft]

I implemented this in java once (percol) as colored bars, one bar per subsystem
so use color not number if you can...

Adrian

Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> In the Orca group we're working on a single plot to show how each subsystem
> is performing using the live_rules.se class.  These are the states shown in
> 
>         http://www.sun.com/950901/columns/adrian/column1.html
> 
> To map state to number I'm thinking of something exponential like:
> 
>         WHITE   =>       0
>         BLUE    =>       1
>         GREEN   =>       2
>         AMBER   =>       4
>         RED     =>       8
>         BLACK   =>      16
> 
> Is this mapping representative of the severity, or would people suggest a
> different mapping, such as linear?
> 
> Best,
> Blair