Updated scheduler service to support process or bootmode restart
fix bad reference, should be StreamAlertType.ALARM instead of StreamAlertType.ALERT (but probably the pending change is in StreamAlertType).
now platform agent dispatches alerts related with data coming from resource monitoring by using the alert manager.  New platform test test_alerts, which verifies setting alert definitions to the agent, as well as that the associated event publications are generated according to the sinusoidal signals generated by the simulator for a couple of parameters.
merge upstream/master
Merge pull request #1075 from shenrie/master

Refined prepare resource support and added prepare InstrumentAgentInstance
merge upstream/master
Merge pull request #1074 from carueda/platform_agent_R2C4

dispatch alerts related with platform resource monitoring (eng data)
Merge pull request #1076 from shenrie/master

Adding check_if_direct_access_mode() to instrument and platform agents
Merge pull request #1073 from seman/scheduler_restart_task_913

Updated scheduler service to support process or bootmode restart
Release Version 2.0.37
Bump Version to 2.0.38-dev
undo errant link committed
Add initial policy support to ionloader
Added precondition policies to check for DA mode in agents