Second slice of the 2026-09-09 whole-system review remediation
(docs/plans/2026-09-09-arch-review.md §10), on top of the High slice 146a1323.
Runtime/devices: SR-2 alarm on-trigger integration scope; SR-3 correlated NativeAlarmActor
subscribe retry; SR-4 immutable audited DB target; SR-5 ordered InstanceActor stop/flush;
SR-12 rehydration fence; SR-13 S&F gate recheck per delivery; DC-4 no OPC UA security
downgrade; DC-5 alarm snapshot for every new subscriber; ORCH-1 sync-dispose joins the pump.
Management/UI: MG-2 site scope on audit tree + Flow Debugger Replay; MG-3 stale-probe memo
removed; MG-4 server-owned bulk-deploy deadline; UI-5 sandbox runs in a killable child
process (new CentralUI.SandboxWorker project); UI-14 bounded sandbox output/IPC.
Edge/audit: EI-1 relay audit ownership; EI-2 SkipBodyCapture suppresses error text; EI-3/EI-11
error-field redaction + caps; EI-4 single relay deadline, pre-execution-only retry; EI-5
authenticated relay provenance; EI-10 body cap before audit read.
Persistence/contracts: DL-1 global Instance.UniqueName unique index + conflict translation;
DL-2 DataConnection protocol config encrypted at rest (migration
20260909203046_EnforceGlobalInstanceNamesAndProtectProtocolConfiguration — coordinated
central upgrade, old binaries cannot read protected rows); DL-3 bounded Replay paging;
DL-6 cross-site Overwrite of a deployed instance rejected; XC-4 proto descriptor contract test.
Config/hygiene: XC-1 central listener isolation by local port; XC-2/XC-3 inert SMTP + cron
keys removed from rig settings; CM-2 env2 bootstrap guard enabled; DC-6 deploy site exit code;
DC-7 notifier retries only explicit standby rejection; XC-5 ClusterClient purged from docs.
Gates recorded in the report: build 0/0, 9 397 passed / 0 failed, rig redeployed on all
eight nodes with the migration applied. 46 Low findings remain open.
P7-6 (behaviour fix, plan decision 1): DeploySiteAsync redeployed EVERY
deployable instance unconditionally. A redeploy is not idempotent at the site —
it resets static attribute overrides and clears native alarm state by design — so
one site-wide push destroyed live operational state on every unchanged instance
in the batch, which is normally most of them. Bulk deploy now pre-filters with
IStaleInstanceProbe (the same seam the bundle importer and Deployments page use;
its memo timing was fixed by the Medium wave's P7-4): an instance whose freshly
computed revision hash still matches its DeployedConfigSnapshot is reported in the
existing additive SkippedInstances list with reason "up-to-date" and never
flattened, staged or sent. The filter is deliberately conservative — every
uncertainty deploys: only an Enabled instance qualifies, a missing snapshot
disqualifies, a prior record that ShouldQuerySiteBeforeRedeploy flags goes through
prepare so the reconcile that HEALS it still runs, and a null/faulting probe means
"indeterminate". New additive MgmtDeploySiteCommand.Force (default false = the new
filtered behaviour) plus CLI `deploy site --force` restores the unconditional push
for the case central cannot see (restored volume, rebuilt node). Composes with the
Medium wave's P7-2: Disabled wins — force suppresses the up-to-date filter only,
never the Disabled skip.
P7-5 (verified, then fixed): the cascade REPRODUCES. All three bulk phases share
one scoped DbContext, and a failed SaveChanges does not untrack the offending
entity — EF re-attempts it on the next save, including MarkDeploymentFailedAsync's
cleanup write. Measured on a real SQLite-backed ScadaBridgeDbContext: a permanent
save failure on instance 1's post-success side effects failed instances 2, 3 and 4
and left all three deployment records stranded InProgress. MarkDeploymentFailedAsync
now detaches the pending changes (new IDeploymentManagerRepository.DetachPendingChanges)
when the cleanup save fails and retries the Failed write once on the clean tracker,
so later instances save cleanly and the record reaches a terminal status. The
DeployFailed audit row moved outside the status-write try (best-effort, must not be
lost because the status write failed).
Tests: 5 new DeploySiteAsyncTests (skip + reason + no site round-trip; --force
deploys; Disabled skipped under both force values; the three not-enough-to-skip
guards), 2 new IntegrationTests over a real EF context (the poisoned-context
cascade, and the narrow EF tracking fact the fix rests on), CLI --force flag
parse test, and a MgmtDeploySite wire-default test. Proof of failure: both P7-6
behaviour tests and both P7-5 assertions fail against the unfixed code.
Deferred-work register rows 37, 86, 87, 88 — the structural duplication and the
three behavioral divergences it had accumulated, fixed together.
Row 37 (structural). `IDeploymentManagerRepository.QueryDeploymentSummariesAsync`
is DELETED. It and `QueryDeploymentListPageAsync` were two paged reads of the same
insert-only table with different contracts — raw offset vs page number, no total vs
total, no instance join vs joined, instance-id-list scoping vs site-id scoping. The
CLI/HTTP `QueryDeployments` handler now goes through `QueryDeploymentListPageAsync`
with a `DeploymentListFilter`, exactly like the Central UI page. The
`DeploymentRecordSummary` projection went with it (`DeploymentListRow` is the single
row shape); its `MaxPageSize` const moved to `DeploymentListPage`, which also gains
`DefaultPageSize`.
Row 86 (Medium, authorization — the headline). `SiteScopeService.ResolveAsync` was
claims-only, so an Administrator carrying `SiteId` claims saw the whole fleet through
the CLI (`ManagementActor.EnforceSiteScope` has always exempted Administrator) and
only their granted sites on the Deployments page. One user, one dataset, two answers.
Administrator = system-wide is the intended semantic on both sides; the UI was the
defect. The role claim is read explicitly with an OrdinalIgnoreCase comparison rather
than via `IsInRole`, which compares claim VALUES ordinally and only resolves when the
identity carries the matching roleType — the two sides must not disagree on a
differently-cased role name. An Administrator's site claims are not collected at all,
so the invariant "system-wide => empty permitted-id set" holds for every caller.
Designer is NOT exempt: the class doc claimed "any Admin/Design user" is system-wide,
which was true of neither side, so the doc was corrected rather than the bypass
widened.
Row 87 (Low). The scoped branch used to resolve the site grant into an instance-id
list by loading EVERY instance in the system, non-transactionally, on every scoped
query; the grant now rides as `SiteIdScope` and is resolved by the query's own join.
An unparseable permitted-site id is DROPPED, never ignored — dropping can only narrow
a grant, discarding it would widen it to fleet-wide. And `PageSize <= 0` no longer
means UNLIMITED down at the repository (`--page-size 0` materialized the whole
retention window): it means "unspecified" and takes the CLI's own default of 50,
capped at 1000. Bounding without telling would be silent truncation, so the handler
now returns a `DeploymentQueryResult` envelope carrying `totalCount` plus the page
coordinates actually applied — with a CLI table projection (mirroring row 57's
`AuditConfigTableProjection`) that unwraps it and appends a "showing N of M" note.
Row 88 (Low, UX). An unrecognised `--status` fell back to "no filter", so a typo like
`--status Sucess` returned every status — a complete-looking answer to a question the
caller never asked. It is now a `ManagementError` naming the valid values. Parsing
stays case-insensitive; a numeric string is rejected too, since `Enum.TryParse`
accepts "7" and yields an undefined value (guarded with `Enum.IsDefined`). Loud
failure over silent full results, per row 46.
Tests: 7 new `SiteScopeServiceTests` pinning Administrator = system-wide (verified
failing 6/7 against the pre-fix service, the Designer pin passing both ways); the
ManagementActor deployment suite migrated onto the consolidated query with new pins
for the status error, case-insensitive parse, numeric rejection, page-size default/
cap/floor, empty-scope-on-garbage-grant, and "reads no instances at all"; a repository
test for site-scope+status composing over a bounded page; and 6 CLI tests for the new
table projection.
Resolve all 622 issues flagged by the enhanced CommentChecker: add missing
<returns> tags (incl. the standard phrasing on non-generic Task methods),
add missing <summary> tags, and replace misused/redundant <inheritdoc/> on
members that override or implement nothing with real documentation.
Documentation-only — no behavior change; solution builds clean.
Joseph Doherty