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.
Six adversarial-review findings, each verified against the code first.
F1 (HIGH) CLI HttpClient capped every call at min(30s, caller timeout),
silently truncating deploy site's 5-minute BulkDeployTimeout and the
5-minute bundle export/preview/import calls — which printed a fake
"504 Request timed out" while the server kept working. HttpClient.Timeout
is now Timeout.InfiniteTimeSpan (the per-call CTS is the single overall
deadline, connect included) with the connect phase bounded separately on
SocketsHttpHandler.ConnectTimeout. The env override is renamed to
SCADABRIDGE_HTTP_CONNECT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS to match its new meaning.
F2 (HIGH) StaleInstanceProbe's process-static memo served stale hashes
because nothing bumped the watermark on three paths:
(a) BundleImporter commits through the raw DbContext, so no import ever
moved the watermark — a second import overwriting the same template
could be OMITTED from ImportResult.StaleInstanceIds. It now bumps
once per apply ATTEMPT: after the commit, and after the rollback too
(the probe runs pre-commit, so a rolled-back attempt leaves memos for
state that never landed; bumping on both paths is the simplest
correct shape, versus threading transaction awareness through a
process-static cache).
(b) CollectWatermarkBumps' default: arm silently no-op'd, contradicting
its own doc. It now sets unattributed=true — an over-broad bump costs
extra work, a missed one produces stale work.
(c) DataConnection edits route through SiteRepository.SaveChangesAsync,
which had no watermark at all, yet Protocol/Primary+Backup config/
FailoverRetryCount are revision-hash inputs. It now bumps (BumpAll —
a connection has no owning template) after a commit that touched one.
F3 (MED) CLI TemplateTableProjection read child ARRAYS, but ListTemplates
now returns database-projected TemplateSummary rows, so template list
printed all zeros. It now prefers the *Count scalars and falls back to
array length (template get still returns full entities). --detail help
text and README corrected: a listing cannot yield definitions, so --detail
renders the raw summary payload and template get --id is the full dump.
F4 (MED) DeploySiteAsync staged every PendingDeployment in phase 1 against
a 5-min TTL while phase 2 reached them one batch at a time, so tail
instances' fetch tokens could expire before their command was sent.
Staging moved into phase 2, immediately before each send; prepare keeps
its flatten/validate/record work. The staging write is the phase's only
repository touch and is serialised behind a 1-permit semaphore, so the
non-thread-safe DbContext constraint holds and the sends stay concurrent.
F5 (MED, latent) DeploySiteAsync leaked every held operation lock if
cancelled — a wedged per-instance semaphore is permanent for the process.
Phase 2 no longer throws (cancellation is recorded as a per-instance
outcome so phase 3 still runs), and an escape from phase 1 or 3 now
unwinds every unfinalised entry: Failed status + lock release.
F6 (LOW) ScriptCompileVerdictCache's promotion wrote hot directly,
bypassing SegmentCapacity (true ceiling 3x against a documented 2x).
Promotion now goes through Store, keeping generational semantics; _hot
and _cold are volatile.
Tests: CLI 396, DeploymentManager 133, ManagementService 494,
TemplateEngine 478, ScriptAnalysis 60, Transport 157, Transport
integration 106, ConfigurationDatabase 366 — all green, 0 build warnings.
The F2/F4/F5 regression tests were each confirmed to FAIL with their fix
reverted.
Joseph Doherty