Alternative way of viewing data in VC database

[jhaack]

Currently, you have to have a platform agent running on a remote box to view data in the UI even if that data is being forwarded to VC and therefore in its local database.

There could be an alternative method in the UI to see the contents of that local DB independent on the status of the platform agent for the remote instance doing the collection.

[craig8]

`Based upon conversations with @jhaack this is supposed to be similar to our current tree, however without the need for the platform to be in the tree.

Thus the platform will not have a status. There is just a tree of points organized in the same way with the same status (as VC can just as easy find out when the last publish time of the point was). In addition it can keep track of other things to help it figure out what to spit back to the ui.

Maybe we add a catch all as (Unknown Parent) i.e. we don't know what platform published this, however it's in the database?

[shwethanidd]

Need to investigate the issue for VOLTTRON 8.0 milestone