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.
FlowDebugRunner.RunMethodAsync now passes InboundScriptResult.ErrorDetail through to the
synthesized inbound audit row's errorDetail, so a SCRIPT_ERROR run's exception ToString() lands
on AuditDetails.ErrorDetail for the Flow Debugger's inbound node to read (never surfaced to the
HTTP caller). FlowDebugRunResult grows an additive LogsTruncated (default false, last positional
member) reporting the inline FlowTraceCollector's low-priority (ScriptLog) truncation separately
from Truncated (step-row fidelity); RunMethodAsync/RunScriptAsync thread collector.LogsTruncated
through on their two collector-backed results.
The trigger-cascade (Spawn) edge used a lightning-bolt marker IN PLACE of the arrowhead. On the upward
Tags→Site hop the bolt sat on top of the riser and read as a broken arrow (rig screenshot 2026-09-08).
Every connector now ends in an ordinary arrowhead; the bolt is a badge (circle + bolt) centred on the
connector's vertical run (FlowGraphView.SpawnBadgePoint, kept in step with OrthogonalPath/AsyncPath).
Same screenshot, second defect: the cascade spawned by "RecipeDownloadFlag = false" was drawn from the
LAST write of the burst (RecipeProcessedFlag) because all four writes share a millisecond and the
spawner rule was time-only. FlowGraphBuilder now prefers the parent's last AttributeWrite of the attribute
the child's triggerAttribute names (at or before the child, else the last such write); the time/position
rules remain the fallback when the child names no attribute or the parent never wrote it.
Verified live on the rebuilt rig (DelmiaSim01 / DelmiaReceiverSimulator): both spawn edges show an
arrowhead + badge, the second one originates from the RecipeDownloadFlag write. bUnit + builder tests
updated/added; Playwright FlowDebuggerTests 4/4.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Code review of the merged arch-review remediation (Tasks 1-13) found four items.
1. FlowDebugRunner returned its OWN synthesized rows un-redacted. RunMethodAsync's
inbound row and RunValueChangeAsync's root row were handed to WriteCentralAsync
(whose writer redacts a private copy) and then put RAW into the returned Events —
so a Live run's caller saw the unfiltered row while Replay of the same execution
showed the redacted one, defeating F1's "Live shows what Replay reads back". Both
methods now resolve IAuditRedactor once per run and place the filtered copy into
the result (including the early-return path on a failed attribute write); the raw
row still reaches the writer, which redacts itself.
2. FlowGraphBuilder's spawner search degenerated to "the last step of the parent".
Since executions are ordered as contiguous blocks, position[p] < childPosition
holds for EVERY parent step, so a run shaped ScriptRun -> Write(A) -> Wait ->
Write(B) whose Write(A) fired the cascade drew the Spawn edge from Write(B). New
rule, in order: (a) the last non-async, non-Response parent step occurring at or
before the child's first step — parent and child of a trigger cascade share the
site clock, so this picks the write that actually fired it; (b) the position rule
as fallback, which is the mixed-clock case F5 was written for (a child clock
behind its parent's, where no parent step satisfies (a)); (c) parentChain[0].
The class remark's stale "Replay order is unchanged" claim is replaced with what
actually happens to a central Database.* call made after Route.To().Call.
3. FlowTraceCollector's byte budget counts UTF-16 chars of DetailsJson only, so
"well under the 4 MB gRPC default" overstated it. Documented honestly: ~1 MB of
UTF-8 for ASCII payloads, ~3 MB worst case for non-ASCII, both under 4 MB before
framing — and raise it only against a real serialized-size measurement.
4. CLI --timeout-seconds help + README row now say the management endpoint caps
flow-debug run-method at ManagementService:LongRunningCommandTimeout (default
5 min), so a larger client value still 504s at the server's ceiling.
Deferred-work register rows 112 (site-side inline trace truncation is invisible to
the operator — needs a proto field) and 113 (the F2 method-entry site scope gates
routed traffic only; ApiMethods have no site affinity to scope against) record what
this review deliberately did not fix.
Tests: FlowGraphBuilderTests gains the same-clock Write(A)/Wait/Write(B) cascade
(red before the rule change, and the clock-behind test still passes on rule (b));
FlowDebugRunnerTests extends the redactor test to the inbound row and adds two
value-change cases (settled poll, failed write). Commons 793, ManagementService 615,
CentralUI 1264, CLI 462 — all green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
The Flow Debugger design doc still described the pre-remediation shape: a
debug-stream subscription for the value-change entry, Deployer everywhere, an
unredacted inline trace copy and "~7 audit rows per call". Reconciled with what
shipped on this branch (Tasks 1-12):
- design D6 / §5.4 / §9 / §10: RequireFlowDebugger page policy with Deployer-only
execution (F3), the PullTraceEvents polling path with AttributeValueUpdate
fields 7/8 recorded as RESERVED and unconsumed (F12), the redacting + byte-
capped shared FlowTraceCollector (F1), route-time site scope (F2), the derived
client waits (F4), the 7-10 row estimate, the doubled central audit write per
routed call, and the inbound-row-after-the-run ordering.
- sitestream.proto: fields 7/8 marked reserved-but-populated, numbers not to be
reused (comment only; no regeneration needed).
- Component-InboundAPI: SkipBodyCapture on the RouteCall row (F11),
SchemaRefResolver's public visibility, WithSiteScope / SITE_SCOPE_DENIED (F2),
Replay's wider role set (F3).
- Component-CentralUI: page policy vs Deployer-only controls (F3), route-time
site scope (F2), client wait derivation (F4).
- "7-10 audit rows per call (3 of them trace-only)" everywhere the estimate is
quoted: the method form, both CLI --trace-all-calls help strings, the CLI
README, the ApiMethod entity doc, the manual migration script and the two
Flow Debugger plans.
- arch-review doc: new §7 Resolution listing F1-F13 with the fixing commit, plus
the tracking-store test race fixed alongside them (86451382).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Central rows carry central's clock, site rows the site's, so the global
OccurredAtUtc sort let a 1-2 s skew float a whole site execution ahead of the
inbound row / RouteCall that started it, and pushed the trigger-cascade spawner
search onto its parentChain[0] fallback.
FlowGraphBuilder.Build now orders executions by the input index of their
earliest-given row and orders steps by timestamp only INSIDE one execution
(one clock), breaking ties by kind rank then input index. A folded outbound
node keeps its earliest-by-time row's identity, which need not be the row given
first, so its index is the minimum over the rows folded into it. The spawner
search uses position in the ordered list rather than a raw timestamp compare.
FlowDebugRunner.RunMethodAsync keeps the collector's emission order instead of
re-sorting; the value-change path keeps its OrderBy (all rows share one site
clock). Replay input arrives timestamp-sorted from the repository, so its order
is unchanged.
The DelmiaShaped test fixture is still shuffled within each execution (the
inside-one-execution timestamp rule is unchanged) but now lists the executions
in emission order, since that is what fixes their relative order.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Every emit site hands FlowTraceCollector the same AuditEvent it hands the
writer, but redaction and payload capping lived inside the writers, which
return a NEW filtered record — so the inline copy that rides
ScriptCallResult.TraceEvents / RouteToCallResponse.TraceEvents was the RAW
event: no per-target SQL-parameter redaction, no header scrubbing, no 8 KB /
64 KB truncation. Live and Replay of the same execution could therefore show
different payloads, and the 500-event-only cap left the reply free to breach
the 4 MB gRPC receive limit — which would fail a real call, since the same
reply carries the script's return value.
The collector now applies the host IAuditRedactor itself (outside the lock;
the writers keep their own idempotent Apply) and enforces a byte budget
(DefaultMaxBytes = 1 MB over the redacted DetailsJson) alongside the event
cap, flagging Truncated when either trips. It moves to Commons
(Types/Debugging) so the central FlowDebugRunner can share it.
The redactor is a singleton, so ScriptRunLauncher resolves it from the ROOT
provider and keeps constructing the collector before the try — the traced
ScriptRun row is emitted from the catch blocks too, including the
shed-at-dequeue path that throws before the DI scope exists.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Review of Task 2 (2026-09-06 outbound-calls plan): (1) an outbound step that
precedes the first chain step of its execution — the default Replay shape when
a run's ScriptTrace rows are absent — was orphaned or given a solid spawner
edge; leading async steps now hang off the spawner on Async edges and the
first non-async step gets the normal link. (2) IsAsync keyed on the first row
being CachedSubmit; it now mirrors the projector's sync rule (first row not
ApiCall/DbWrite) so a group missing its submit row still branches. (3) Same-
tick rows tie-broke by GUID; new LifecycleRank (submit < attempt < resolve,
non-terminal < terminal) makes first/latest attribution order-independent.
(4) DbSubtitle used GetInt32 (FormatException on out-of-range/fractional) —
now TryGetInt32, never throws. Also: External-lane edges never count as
central↔site crossings; DurationMs clamped; FlowStep doc updated.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
GetTraceEventsAsync widens its channel filter to ScriptTrace ∪ ApiOutbound ∪
DbOutbound ∪ Notification ∪ (ApiInbound & InboundRequest) (plan D6); SecuredWrite,
Cluster and InboundAuthFailure rows in the same tree stay excluded. The site
SqliteAuditWriter.ReadByExecutionIdsAsync already had no channel predicate — pinned
by a test. Interface doc updated to match.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Fold rule: outbound rows sharing (kind, CorrelationId) become one FlowStep with
a Lifecycle list — first row's identity/time/input, latest row's outcome/
subtitle/output/error, DurationMs = sync row's own or submit→terminal wall time
(null while pending). Chain skips async steps (Notify, or first row
CachedSubmit) and links them with Async edges from the preceding chain step.
Spawner edges from a non-RouteCall are Spawn: true. The Response links from the
last non-async step of the inbound execution (the RouteCall), not the globally
last cascaded step (D9). FlowGraphView places a Response at max column + 1 so
the D9 origin does not pull it left (pulled forward from Task 7 to keep the
layout test green).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
ResolveKind maps ApiOutbound/DbOutbound/Notification to ApiCall/DbCall/Notify;
ResolveLane puts the three on FlowLane.External; outbound outcomes map
Delivered→Ok, Failed→Failed, Parked/Discarded→Parked, else Pending; subtitles
'{status} · sync|cached', '{op} · n rows' from a DbWrite Extra, '{status}' for
Notify. New FlowStepProjector.IsOutbound helper.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcMG6xXdsJbmD2wYAgkK29
Flow Debugger (design 2026-09-05 §7.1): FlowDebugRunMethodCommand / FlowDebugRunValueChangeCommand /
FlowDebugReplayCommand on the per-node ManagementActor (Deployer role; the two run commands
are long-running), all delegating to FlowDebugRunner. RunMethod refuses on a standby with
STANDBY_NODE (ManagementCommandException now carries an optional Code that replaces
COMMAND_FAILED), validates parameters through the real ParameterValidator/SchemaRefResolver
(made public), synthesizes the inbound row (actor = operator, Extra.source = flow-debugger)
and runs the method through InboundScriptExecutor with a trace-sink RouteHelper so the reply
carries the RouteCall row + the site's inline events. RunValueChange does a traced routed
write via IInstanceRouter, then polls IPullTraceEventsClient (interface moved to Commons so
ManagementService can consume it) until a ScriptRun parented to the root settles, else
NO_TRIGGER_WITHIN_WINDOW. Replay reads IAuditLogRepository.GetTraceEventsAsync.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
Flow Debugger (design 2026-09-05 §7.1): IAuditLogRepository.GetTraceEventsAsync walks any
entry id to its root and down the Edges/Chain CTE exactly as GetExecutionTreeAsync, then
returns the chain's ScriptTrace rows plus the ApiInbound.InboundRequest row via the canonical
row mapper, ordered (OccurredAtUtc, EventId). Test doubles implement the new member with a
NotSupported stub.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
Flow Debugger (design 2026-09-05 §5.3/§5.4): AttributeValueUpdate fields 7/8 stamped by
StreamRelayActor and parsed by SiteStreamGrpcClient (older frames => null/false). New
PullTraceEvents unary RPC on SiteStreamService (same PSK-gated prefix as PullAuditEvents):
a point read of the site audit SQLite by ExecutionId OR ParentExecutionId
(ISiteAuditQueue.ReadByExecutionIdsAsync, json_extract on the codec's camelCase keys, new
IX_audit_event_occurred index, 64-id / 2000-row caps) that moves no cursor and flips no
ForwardState. Central IPullTraceEventsClient/GrpcPullTraceEventsClient mirror the audit pull
client (endpoint resolution, NodeB failover, fault => empty) and register beside it.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
Flow Debugger (design 2026-09-05 §5.2): bit NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 column + EF migration
20260906034113 with its docs/plans/sql production twin. CreateApiMethodCommand gains
TraceAllCalls=false; UpdateApiMethodCommand gains bool? TraceAllCalls (null = unchanged so an
older CLI never resets it). Management result echoes the flag; CLI create/update expose
--trace-all-calls; README carries the ~7-rows-per-call warning.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
Flow Debugger (design 2026-09-05 §5.2/§5.4): Trace rides beside ParentExecutionId on
RouteToCallRequest/RouteToSetAttributesRequest/ScriptCallRequest/SetStaticAttributeCommand/
AttributeValueChanged; RouteToCallResponse and ScriptCallResult carry the site run's
ExecutionId and its ScriptTrace AuditEvents inline. All trailing optional — zero call-site edits.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
Flow Debugger (design 2026-09-05 §5.1): trace steps are audit rows. New
AuditChannel.ScriptTrace appended after Cluster and four kinds appended after
ManualFailover so stored ordinals never move; lock-in tests + alog.md §4 updated.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GSLkkHKz9JrAtmJjmQK3cP
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.
P5-3: add IX_Notifications_Created_NotificationId (CreatedAt DESC,
NotificationId DESC) — the Central UI Notification Outbox list page sorts on
exactly that pair, but no existing index leads unconditionally on CreatedAt,
so an unfiltered/lightly filtered page fell back to a full clustered-index
scan + sort on every COUNT + page request. Mirrors the Medium wave's
IX_SiteCalls_Created_TrackedOperationId migration + SQL twin pattern
faithfully, including the handwritten docs/plans/sql script.
P5-4: operator Retry/Discard was read-check-write keyed on NotificationId
only — a detached PipeTo task interleaving with the dispatcher's own write
(or a second concurrent operator action) could land between the read and
the write and get silently clobbered by the unconditional UpdateAsync,
stamping a Delivered row Discarded with stale fields. Adds
INotificationOutboxRepository.TryUpdateFromParkedAsync, a single-statement
compare-and-swap (WHERE Status == Parked) mirroring
SecuredWriteRepository.TryMarkApprovedAsync's CAS shape. NotificationOutboxActor's
RetryAsync/DiscardAsync now use the CAS write and, on a lost race, re-read
to report "notification already progressed to <Status>" instead of silently
overwriting whatever is there now.
Proof of failure: reverting only the actor's CAS usage while keeping the
repository addition reproduces the silent-overwrite bug — 7 tests fail,
including two new deterministic (non-sleep) race-proof tests that mock the
exact GetByIdAsync -> lost-CAS -> re-read sequence the finding describes.
P5-3 is perf-only; verified via migration/SQL-twin parity instead (no
runtime proof-of-failure is meaningful for an index).
Reject read the row as Pending, then landed a blind full-row UpdateAsync. A
concurrent approve could win its own Pending->Approved CAS in that gap and enter
the multi-second WriteTagAsync relay; the reject's update then stamped
Status/ExecutedAtUtc/ExecutionError to Rejected mid-relay, so the two-person-control
record said Rejected for a write that physically executed at the plant. Works
cross-node (both centrals share one MS SQL).
- ISecuredWriteRepository/SecuredWriteRepository: new TryMarkRejectedAsync,
mirroring TryMarkApprovedAsync exactly (conditional UPDATE ... WHERE
Status='Pending', writes only the columns the reject transition owns). No schema
change, no migration, no rowversion column.
- HandleRejectSecuredWrite: uses the CAS; on loss re-reads the row and returns the
status that actually won (same UX shape as approve's lost-race error), and emits
the SecuredWriteReject audit row ONLY on a won CAS.
- Audited the other lifecycle writes: approve/reject/expiry (inline + the
opportunistic list sweep) now ALL transition only out of Pending, so winning the
approve CAS gives that leg exclusive ownership of the row and its post-relay
Executed/Failed update stays safe as an unconditional write. Documented in place.
- Tests: repository-level approve-vs-reject races in both orders (exactly one wins,
loser false, row reflects the winner only) plus reject-vs-expiry; handler-level
lost-race reject (conflict error, no write, no audit row) and approve on an
already-rejected row (no CAS, no relay, no audit).
`DataConnectionManagerActor.HandleCreateConnection` is create-only (warns and
returns for a name it already holds), so `EnsureDclConnection`'s documented
"a changed config re-issues the create so the DCL adopts it" was never true on
ANY node: a corrected endpoint/credential/backup/failover-count took effect only
when the connection was next built from scratch (node restart, singleton
failover, remove-then-re-add), while the DM's hash cache recorded it as applied.
Rows 89/90 made that honest with a Warning; this closes it.
New `ReconfigureConnectionCommand` (Commons, same shape as the create):
- `DeploymentManagerActor.EnsureDclConnection` now has three outcomes off its one
per-name hash slot — unchanged -> nothing at all, new -> create, CHANGED ->
reconfigure — and logs "Reconfigured DCL connection {Connection}
(protocol={Protocol}) in place" at Information in place of the old Warning. The
winner-resolution / arbitration / tombstone logic is untouched; only what
happens after a change is detected changed.
- `DataConnectionManagerActor` FORWARDS the command to the owning connection
actor, falling back to a create for a name it does not hold, so the command is
safe whatever the manager's state.
- `DataConnectionActor` handles it in ALL THREE states and never stashes it — a
connection pointed at a wrong or dead endpoint lives in Connecting/Reconnecting,
which is exactly when a correction arrives; stashed it would wait on the broken
configuration forever. Handling replaces protocol/primary/backup/failover-count,
re-arms endpoint selection to Primary (the new config's primary is the intent,
whatever the old config had failed over to), and calls the new shared
`SwapAdapter` helper — now used by both failover sites too, so the swap exists
once: unhook + fire-and-forget dispose -> _factory.Create -> rewire -> bump
_adapterGeneration LAST. `BecomeReconnecting(afterReconfigure: true)` then
reconnects immediately (StartSingleTimer replaces any armed reconnect, so no
racing attempts) with the unstable-disconnect accounting and failover check
suppressed — the link was dropped on purpose, and counting it as an unstable
cycle could trip a failover onto the NEW backup before the new primary had been
tried once. ReSubscribeAll/ReSubscribeAllAlarms then re-issue everything from
the untouched subscription registries. Idempotent: a reconfigure carrying the
configuration already in force is a no-op.
Stop-and-recreate was rejected as destructive: subscriptions live inside
DataConnectionActor and InstanceActor cancels its subscribe-retry timer on first
success, so a rebuilt actor would have no subscribers and nothing would ever
re-subscribe.
Tests: new DataConnectionReconfigureTests (7; 5 fail / 2 pass against a
behavioural revert). DclConnectionArbitrationTests gains two row-97 tests and its
CDC-arrival test now asserts the second push is a reconfigure; its ping-pong
guard also asserts zero reconfigures, since a flip would now show up there.
SiteRuntime-010 renamed to ..._ReissuesReconfigureCommand. 3 fail against a
reverted EnsureDclConnection. DataConnectionLayer.Tests 327/327,
SiteRuntime.Tests 643/643, solution build 0 warnings.
Docs: Component-DataConnectionLayer.md gains an "In-place reconfiguration"
section under Endpoint Redundancy; Component-SiteRuntime.md, and the
docs/components/ mirrors, updated; the arbitration decision memo gains an
appended §9 postscript resolving its residual 1 (residuals 2 and 3 stay open).
Register row 98 — the site-scope authorization gate was FAIL-OPEN on an
unresolvable target. The resolve-then-check shape was written as
`if (target != null) EnforceSiteScope(...)`, so a null resolve skipped the
check entirely and a site-scoped caller passed the gate for any id in the
system. Authorization now fails CLOSED: a target that cannot be PROVEN to sit
inside the caller's scope is treated as outside it.
The defect turned out to have THREE more instances than the register recorded.
Besides `EnforceSiteScopeForInstance` and `EnforceSiteScopeForIdentifier`, the
same inline shape sat in `HandleGetInstance`, `HandleGetSite` and
`HandleGetDataConnection` — read handlers that resolve their own target and so
never call the helpers. Those were the sharper half of the bug: they answered
success-with-null for a nonexistent id and Unauthorized for an out-of-scope
one, making the pair an id-enumeration oracle over the whole fleet. All five
now route through one shared `DenyUnresolvedTargetIfScoped` arm.
Two properties are load-bearing and pinned by tests:
- System-wide callers (Administrator, or a Deployer with no site grants) are
untouched — they return at the guards above the lookup and keep the
handler's ordinary "not found" / null answer.
- The denial is indistinguishable from an out-of-scope denial: same
ManagementUnauthorized shape, and a message that never states whether the
target exists.
Register row 99 — CLI `audit query --status delivered` failed client-side while
the server would have accepted it: `AcceptOnlyFromAmong` matches ordinally
against the capitalised literals. Same treatment row 88 gave `deploy status` —
the client-side gate is removed, the valid set moves into the option help text,
and the server becomes the single authoritative check.
That required ADDING the server check, not just relying on one: the shared
audit filter parser was LAX, silently dropping an unrecognised value and
leaving the dimension unconstrained — so removing the CLI gate alone would have
turned a loud client-side failure into a plausible, complete-looking page that
did not answer the question asked. New `ParseEnumListStrict` (case-insensitive,
rejects ordinals — `Enum.TryParse` accepts "3", and a filter is a name-based
contract) backs the ManagementService /api/audit/query + /api/audit/export
endpoints, which now return 400 BAD_REQUEST naming the valid set.
Other AcceptOnlyFromAmong sites surveyed in the audit group: `--channel`,
`--kind`, `--status` on BOTH `query` and `export` (6 uses) plus `export
--format` (rejected `--format CSV` though the server lowercases it) — all seven
fixed here. Deliberately left alone: `template folder reorder --direction`
(pure client-side literal, no server-side parse to defer to) and the global
`--format json|table` (CLI-local output selection, never sent to a server).
The CentralUI AuditLogPage drill-in parser and the CentralUI export endpoint it
feeds deliberately KEEP the lax parse — they read a query string a human may
have bookmarked, where a stale fragment must still render the page. Both
contracts now live side by side in AuditQueryParamParsers and are documented as
non-reconcilable.
Docs: Component-ManagementService.md gains a "Site-scope gate: fail-closed on
an unresolvable target" section and a strict-filter note on the audit
endpoints; Component-Security.md records the fail-closed shape under Deployer
site scoping; the CLI README marks the audit filter values case-insensitive and
states the no-silent-drop / no-ordinals contract.
Tests: 5 new ManagementActorTests fail before the row-98 fix (verified by
reverting ManagementActor.cs) and cover scoped+nonexistent -> denied,
system-wide+nonexistent -> unchanged (both Administrator and no-grant Deployer),
scoped+in-scope -> allowed, and the indistinguishability property. 21 CLI tests
fail before the row-99 fix. Four pre-existing tests that pinned the removed
client-side gate were rewritten to pin the new contract.
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.
Measured the unbounded purge burst and found it can force a full ten-table
snapshot resync, then bounded it. No purge-exemption path was added — the
deletes are still CDC-captured like any other write, which stays ruled out
by design; what changed is how many a single tick performs.
MEASURED (harness: real EventLogPurgeService over a real LocalDb file with
site_events genuinely RegisterReplicated, plus a two-node loopback gRPC
replication pair; docker rig untouched):
393 bytes/row incl. indexes => a 1 GB event log holds ~2,731,947 rows.
Expiring all of them in ONE tick: 285 s, 2,731,947 oplog rows,
284 MB oplog payload, 2.73 M row-version tombstones (7-day retention),
i.e. 2.7x LocalDb's MaxOplogRows default of 1,000,000. Crossing that makes
the 60 s maintenance tick prune the oplog and set needs_snapshot — a FULL
snapshot of all ten replicated tables, bought by a routine retention purge.
The resident backlog is produced-minus-drained, so a healthy peer blunts it:
on loopback the same burst peaked at 391,424 and cleared in 6.0 min. That is
the problem, not the reassurance — the old safety margin was a function of
peer throughput and vanished with the peer down. A bounded tick is safe at
any peer speed.
Drain is not a bottleneck: 7.6k-19.8k tombstones/s (20k / 500k / 2.73M runs).
SHIPPED:
- SiteEventLogOptions.MaxPurgedRowsPerTick (default 250,000; 0 = unlimited
escape hatch, negatives rejected). One SHARED budget across the retention
purge and the cap trim — two independently-capped phases would let a tick
emit twice the intended burst. 4x margin under MaxOplogRows, which is also
shared with every other replicated table's ordinary traffic.
- SiteEventLogOptions.PurgeCatchUpInterval (default 5 min, validated > 0 and
<= PurgeInterval). Without it pacing would make retention converge in 11
DAYS at the daily cadence; with it the worst case converges in ~11 ticks
(~55 min), every burst bounded. 5 min rather than 1 so ticks cannot outrun
the peer's drain and re-accumulate the backlog.
- A ceiling is claimed only when work genuinely remains (bounded EXISTS probe),
so an expired set landing exactly on the budget does not arm a no-op retry.
- Visibility: rate-limited (15 min) Warning naming the ceiling and the
accelerated interval, plus an unthrottled counter
scadabridge.site.event_log.purge_ceiling_hits — its SHAPE distinguishes a
backlog converging from a site whose event rate outruns one paced tick.
- The purge loop is a delay loop rather than a PeriodicTimer, so its cadence
now anchors to the END of the previous purge. Documented.
ROW-33 INTERPLAY VERIFIED: pacing lowers each spike and lengthens total purge
duration, but a full 250k tick drains in ~23 s (~4 min even at 10x a real
link's penalty) against the 15-minute sustained dwell and a 5-minute gap to
the next tick. The UNPACED 2.73M burst had only 2.5x of margin (6.0 min), so
pacing makes the badge assumption robust rather than merely preserving it.
Docs travel together: Component-SiteEventLogging.md, topology-guide.md
("Reading the replication backlog" + the row-33 badge note), CLAUDE.md's
purge-burst sentence, and a dated measurement/decision note under docs/plans/.
Fail-before: the new behavioural tests do not compile against the pre-fix
service (RunPurge was void); with PurgeBudget neutralised to always-unlimited,
6 of the new tests fail and all 19 pre-existing ones pass.
Tests: SiteEventLogging 93/93, Commons 715/715, HealthMonitoring 115/115,
Host 505/505. Solution build clean.
ROW 80 (observability correctness). An unreplicated site published
LocalDbReplicationConnected=false / LocalDbOplogBacklog=0, contradicting the
nullable semantics every doc and the proto already state ("null means no
reading, NOT disconnected with an empty backlog").
Root cause: the replication engine is registered unconditionally and idles
without a peer, so ISyncStatus answers false/0 on a node that was never meant to
replicate, and LocalDbReplicationStatusReporter passed that straight through.
Two consequences: an operator read connected:false on a healthy site as a fault,
and central's null branches — row 33's conditional KPI emission and
sustained-badge anchor exclusion — never received the null they exist for, so
rig site-b/site-c emitted a permanently misleading
localDbReplicationConnected=0 series.
Fix mirrors the SiteEventLogReplicationCheck precedent: the Host evaluates
SiteLocalDbSetup.ReplicationIsConfigured ONCE and passes it to
AddLocalDbReplicationHealthBridge as a third provider; unconfigured
short-circuits the probe to (null, null). HealthMonitoring never reads LocalDb
config itself, and the same captured value now also feeds
SiteEventLogReplicationCheck so the two surfaces cannot disagree.
ISiteHealthCollector.SetLocalDbReplicationStatus widens to bool? — the
non-nullable bool was the type-level root cause (null was inexpressible).
false now means exactly one thing: configured, peer session down = a real fault.
Wire/central/UI needed no change: the proto already carries BoolValue/Int64Value
wrappers and the aggregator + KPI source already branch on null. This makes code
match doc, so no doc claim was weakened.
Watch the trap that caused this: configured-ness is PeerAddress OR ApiKey (only
the dialling half sets a peer address). The pre-existing SiteLocalDbWiringTests
fixture sets ApiKey and IS a replicating node, so its false/0 assertion is
correct and is kept, with a comment saying so; the new
UnreplicatedSiteLocalDbHealthTests fixture is the genuinely-unreplicated one.
ROW 73 (silent loss of self-heal). AkkaHostedService skips
SiteReconciliationActor when no IDeploymentConfigFetcher is resolvable, and that
skip was a lone boot Warning — a node with no self-heal path at all went on
reporting itself perfectly healthy forever.
Adds tri-state SiteHealthReport.StartupReconcilerActive (null = not reported,
i.e. the central self-report or a pre-row-73 site build; true = running;
false = booted without it), latched once at boot by the Host in both branches.
Additive proto field 29 (BoolValue, vendored C# regenerated via
docker/regen-proto.sh centralcontrol; csproj restored, verified empty diff).
The skip branch also raises its log to Error — no configuration makes the
fetcher legitimately absent on a site node — and writes a best-effort
deployment/Error site event so the evidence outlives the boot log.
Central treatment: a "No self-heal" WARNING badge on the site tile, not a
failure. Config still reaches the node via LocalDb replication while it is up;
what it lost is recovery from a deploy that landed while it was down — degraded,
not offline. Only the explicit false is badged (badging null would light up the
whole fleet the moment central is upgraded ahead of the sites), and offline
sites are skipped, matching the replication-backlog badge.
Fail-before evidence: with the row-80 gate behaviourally reverted,
UnreplicatedSite_HealthReport_ReportsNullForBothLocalDbFields fails
"Expected: null / Actual: False" and 3 of the 8 new reporter unit tests fail.
Tests: HealthMonitoring 128, Host 518, CentralUI 1051, Communication 717,
Commons 715, SiteEventLogging 81 — all green.
Joseph Doherty