- Restored execute permissions

- Added/Updated headers
- Added script to update copyright headers

- disabled event testing; operation works, but sometimes tests get stuck
- added dynamic wait for CockroachDB and NATS containers to start
- tuned grace shutdown period
- improved NatsBackend termination

- corrected run_tests_locally script
- solved formatting issue with Database Engine error logging
- minor type hinting corrections
- activated event notifications for Device, EndPoint and ConfigRule

- updated run_tests_locally script
- updated GitLab CI/CD with NATS
- updated ContextModel and TopologyModel with created/updated
- added logic for Context and Topology events created/updated/deleted
- activated dependencies for test_connection
- activated event testing in Context and Topology entities
- corrected conftest for Context component

- cleaned up script run tests locally
- temporarily added script to automate test & coverage reporting
- reorganized unitary tests
- migration in progress to use single-column primary-key for main entities
- intermediate backup ; work in progress

- reorganized code spliting database models, enumerations, and operation methods
- separated unitary tests per entity and defined order between them
- separated unitary test for fasthasher
- modev old code to separate folder

- progress on migration to CockroachDB (partial)

- updated manifest
- corrected README.md notes
- corrected script run-tests-locally
- partial code implementation

- updatd EventsCollector get_events
- added field created_at in ContextModel
- added ChangeFeedClient
- WIP arrangements in unitary tests
- WIP arrangements in ServicerImpl
- arranged run_tests_locally script

- Added basic support for ACL rules
- Corrected unitary tests

- added exposition of redis-tests service for testing with Redis backend
- moved delete logic from Context Servicer to ORM components
- added support for constraints of different kinds

- Arranged .gitignore & .gitkeep files in common proto folder
- Created specific run_tests_locally script for Context component
- Moved imports from *.proto folder to common.proto folder
- Adapted common.tools.object_factory to new proto definitions for ConfigRule and Constraint
- Extended common.tools.type_checkers to new proto definitions for ConfigRule and Constraint
- Removed context's genproto.sh script
- Adapted Events generated to new timestamp data type
- Minor code and linting fixing

- Migrated to use new generic gRPC servicer
- Migrated to use new generic Rest servicer
- Migrated to use new settings framework
- Migrated tests to use new generic servicers and mock's
- Solved bug with endpoint monitors' population (dupplicated sample types due to wrong key generation)
- Use Emulated driver when both driver and device type are not specified
- Separated unitary tests and execution scripts per device driver
- Extracted common unitary test functionalities into separate code files
- Minor code styling/formatting

- monitoring/test_monitoring.py: provides a basic testing skeleton
- monitoring/requirements.in/.txt: updated with pytest
- monitoring/genproto.py: added instructions to import generated Python modules using "from . import ..." instead of "import ..."; otherwise, pytest and other possible modules doing imports might complain.
- monitoring/monitoring_server.py: packed start_server and stop_server functionaity to simplify test definition, minor formattings, bug resolutions and improvements in package import.
- monitoring/monitoring_client.py: minor formattings, bug resolutions, and improvements in package import.