See 

https://gitlab.it-innovation.soton.ac.uk/FLAME/flame-clmc/blob/mediaComponentConfig/docs/monitoring.md#user-content-configuration-status-modelling-and-monitoring

for documentation

Seeds random number generation for predictable results

conftest now simply returns an initialised simulator object

get_db_client -> influx_db

Also fixes field validation for unspecified metric data

Refactors simulator based fixtures in conftest and embeds MC config state into simulation boot sequence

Also removes superfluous file state & API state tests

Restructure pytest package to use correct module names and provide setup.py to build a python package distribution, needed to more effectively reuse tests in the platform project build/test process

Restructure pytest package to use correct module names and provide setup.py to build a python package distribution, needed to more effectively reuse tests in the platform project build/test process