I'm not sure if there were plans in place for adding SDF to the intent bit, but I just added it now so that we can get into practice and iron out any further rounding problems.  

In preparation, Terra and I added the PI models to the scripts that automatically switch to observe in nominal low noise and safe in down.  I also edited the script that changes models to down so that now it will change them to safe.  We have made down and safe softlinks to the same file for most models, and some of the PI models don't have down.snaps while all models have safe.snaps.  We originally started using down becuase some of the models (suspensions) needed to be restored with different settings after a computer reboot than they need in the down state.  This isn't true anymore for suspensions, so there isn't really any point to having down.snaps any more as far as I can see. 

I also edited the adjustDamperGain in ISC_library, which actually is used in the VIOLIN_MODE_DAMPING state, to round values to avoid excessive precision problems in SDF.  This uses the  cdsutils.getdata function that caused some problems in the OMC guardian earlier today.  

We may still have some diffs come up because of excessive precison in some of our guardian code.  If that happens, if the operator can take a screenshot of any diffs that come up that would be helpful so we can sort out what else needs to be fixed or not monitored.