Applies the family-wide admin-UI cleanup playbook to the Central UI so the
Blazor surfaces stop diverging from the shared kit: buttons are grouped rather
than individually sized, long cell values are contained instead of widening
tables, and hard-coded colours give way to theme tokens.
The headline fix is that MainLayout passed Accent="#2f5fd0" to ThemeShell,
which the kit emits as an inline style on the shell root. Being a descendant of
<html>, it beat the [data-bs-theme="dark"] override for the entire app, so the
dark accent had never rendered. Declaring --accent in site.css :root instead
lets both schemes resolve; light is unchanged because the value already matched
the kit's light default.
Theme pins to 0.4.1, which upstreams the local .btn sizing block verbatim, so
that block is deleted here rather than duplicated. Verified byte-identical
before removal; the repo now declares no --bs-btn-* anywhere.
NOT purely cosmetic, contrary to the sweep's stated scope: four detail-modal
surfaces (NotificationReport, ConfigurationAuditLog, ParkedMessages,
SiteCallsReport) were additionally refactored from holding the selected record
to holding its id and re-resolving from the current page each render, with the
resolve doubling as the visibility gate. A background refresh that drops the
row now closes the modal instead of showing a stale snapshot. This is a
behaviour change and is called out rather than buried: a full-suite run turned
up one intermittent CentralUI failure, CloseButton_DismissesModal, whose stack
(GetRequiredEventBindingEntry during DispatchEventAsync) indicates the handler
was disposed between render and click — a window the previous field-held record
made structurally impossible. Treat the modal lifecycle here as unreviewed.
Build 0/0; suite green apart from that one intermittent failure.
deploy.sh's simultaneous recreate split site pairs twice on 2026-08-01 with
the guard off (mutual InitJoinNack, each node forming its own 1-node
cluster; a per-pair coin flip compose depends_on does not prevent). Guard
enabled on all 8 rig nodes: two consecutive simultaneous-start trials (full
redeploy + full-topology compose restart) converged all four pairs
deterministically — founder self-first on every lower address, peer-first
join on every higher, zero splits. This closes the deferred issue-acceptance
live gate; the switch stays default-off everywhere else.
CentralFailoverControl lives in Components/Health/ (matching AuditKpiTiles /
SiteCallKpiTiles) rather than inline in Health.razor, so it is testable without
standing up the whole dashboard's DI graph.
- Admin-gated via AuthorizeView + RequireAdmin. The Health page itself is
intentionally all-roles, so the gate belongs on the control, not the page.
- Disabled with an explanatory title when the pair has no online standby;
the authoritative guard remains server-side against live cluster membership.
- Confirmation dialog (IDialogService, the page idiom) warns that singletons
hand over, in-flight work on the active node is interrupted, and THIS PAGE
will disconnect and reconnect against the new active node -- Traefik routes
the UI to the node being restarted, so a working failover otherwise reads as
a crash the admin caused.
- A refused failover (service returns null) surfaces the refusal; the UI never
reports a failover that did not happen.
7 bUnit tests. Two harness requirements that bit first: AuthorizeView needs a
cascading AuthenticationState (the app supplies it from the layout), and
BunitContext pre-registers a placeholder IAuthorizationService that throws on
policy evaluation -- both handled the same way NavMenuTests documents.
Runbook paragraphs added to Component-ClusterInfrastructure.md (new Manual
Failover section) and docker/README.md.
Every node now lists ITSELF as seed-nodes[0] and its partner second. Akka runs
FirstSeedNodeProcess -- the only bootstrap path that can form a NEW cluster when
no peer answers InitJoin -- exclusively for seed-nodes[0]; every other node runs
JoinSeedNodeProcess and retries InitJoin forever. That is why a lone cold-starting
central-b never came Up (the "registered outage gap"), and self-first ordering
closes it using Akka's own protocol.
- 6 node appsettings swapped (the *-node-b configs; the -a nodes were already
self-first). All 14 shipped node configs now satisfy the invariant.
- StartupValidator enforces it at boot, comparing host AND port -- the invariant
fails silently when broken, so it is enforced loudly. NOTE: the gitignored
deploy/wonder-app-vd03/ overlay must be reordered before its next deploy or
that node will refuse to boot.
- SelfFirstSeedBootstrapTests: real in-process clusters at production
failure-detection timings, incl. a falsifiability control proving the OLD
peer-first ordering never forms.
Rejected alternative (implemented, measured, discarded): an external self-form
timer calling Cluster.Join(SelfAddress) after a window. It sits outside Akka's
join handshake and so cannot tell "no seed answered" from "a seed answered and
the join is in flight". On a routine standby restart the peer is alive but the
join stalls behind removal of the node's own stale incarnation; a Join(self)
during TryingToJoin abandons the in-flight join and forms a second cluster at
the same address -- still split after 90s. Docs that claimed self-first ordering
was unsafe for simultaneous cold start are corrected: while mutually reachable
the InitJoin handshake converges them to one cluster (measured).
Two-node keep-oldest could NEVER survive a crash of the oldest/active node:
Akka.NET 1.5.62 KeepOldest.OldestDecision only lets down-if-alone rescue a
side with >= 2 members, so the 1-vs-1 survivor takes DownReachable and downs
ITSELF — proven live on the rig ('SBR took decision ... including myself')
before this change. static-quorum(1) is worse (IsTooManyMembers -> DownAll);
keep-majority just re-keys the fatal crash to the lowest address.
SplitBrainResolverStrategy gains 'auto-down' (new default): BuildHocon emits
Akka's AutoDowning provider with auto-down-unreachable-after = StableAfter.
The leader among the REACHABLE members downs the unreachable peer, so the
survivor takes over singletons and /health/active in ~25s regardless of which
node died. Accepted trade (explicit owner decision): a real network partition
runs dual-active until an operator restarts one side. keep-oldest remains
supported; DownIfAlone validation is now scoped to it.
Live drill on the rebuilt rig: active-crash TAKEOVER in 28s (victim still
down; all 7 singletons Younger->Oldest), standby-crash removal 27s with 0
routing blips; victims rejoin as standby in 2s. New real-cluster tests pin
both directions (SbrFailoverTests.AutoDown_*); TwoNodeClusterFixture gains a
strategy knob. All 16 appsettings flipped (src, docker, docker-env2, and the
gitignored wonder-app-vd03 overlay on disk — owner must sync to the host).
Docs: decision record docs/plans/2026-07-21-auto-down-availability-decision.md,
Component-ClusterInfrastructure downing section rewritten, drill + README
reworked (active mode now asserts takeover), deferred-work SBR row resolved.
WhenTerminated watchdog calls IHostApplicationLifetime.StopApplication() when
the ActorSystem dies outside StopAsync (SBR self-down + run-coordinated-shutdown-when-down),
so the service supervisor restarts the node as a fresh incarnation. Optional
ctor param keeps every existing construction site compiling.
Plan's deploy/wonder-app-vd03/install.ps1 service-recovery-actions edit is
skipped: that production deploy artifact is not tracked in this repo (Task 16
skipped its appsettings.Central.json for the same reason).
Final cross-bundle reviewer identified 7 inconsistencies that the per-bundle
reviewers couldn't see; all fixed in one logical commit.
Critical:
- HighLevelReqs AL-3: drop 'then upsert-on-newer-status' — AuditLog is
strictly append-only (correct for SiteCalls/Notifications, wrong for
the immutable AuditLog shadow).
- Component-AuditLog Error rate KPI: align with HealthMonitoring's
exclusion list (Success/Delivered/Enqueued) rather than just non-Success;
otherwise every Delivered notification or Enqueued cached call would be
counted as an error.
Important:
- Component-AuditLog line 154: ISiteAuditWriter -> IAuditWriter (canonical
name per Commons and the rest of this doc).
- Component-AuditLog Central direct-write paragraph: convert remaining
slash notation (ApiInbound/Completed, Notification/Attempt,
Notification/Terminal) to dot notation used everywhere else.
- Component-ClusterInfrastructure: scope SiteCallAuditActor to
reconciliation + KPIs + Retry/Discard relay; cached-telemetry ingest is
AuditLogIngestActor's role per Combined Telemetry contract.
- Component-CentralUI Audit Log page: state the OperationalAudit read
permission and the read-vs-export split (matching CLI doc).
- Component-NotificationOutbox: add never-fail-the-action invariant for
dispatcher audit writes.
Minor:
- Component-InboundAPI: 'Non-blocking semantics' was ambiguous (could be
read as async); reword to 'Fail-soft' — the write is still synchronous
before flush, but failures are caught and don't change the response.
- Component-CLI: realign audit-query/audit-export flags to actually match
the Central UI Audit Log filter set (channel, kind, status, site,
instance, target, actor, correlation-id, errors-only); drop --user and
--entity-id which are IAuditService concepts, not Audit Log columns.
- Component-AuditLog KPI tile names: 'Volume/Error rate/Backlog' ->
'Audit volume/Audit error rate/Audit backlog' (matches Central UI and
Health Monitoring); drop the two orphan KPIs (Top inbound callers, Top
outbound 5xx) that were never surfaced anywhere.
- Component-AuditLog Interactions: re-attribute DbOutbound emissions to
ESG (where Database.* lives) with a note that Site Runtime is the API
surface for scripts.
- HighLevelReqs AL-12: drop 'and reconciliation operations' (CLI has no
reconcile command; reconciliation is an internal self-healing pull).
Add note that verify-chain becomes operational once AL-11's hash chain
ships.
Reviewer flag on 1bbfad3: "per Component-AuditLog.md, §6.2" pointed at
alog.md numbering, not at any anchor in Component-AuditLog.md (which uses
prose subsection titles). Switch to the prose anchor (Ingestion Paths →
Telemetry forward) so the link resolves.
LmxProxy is no longer needed. Moved the entire lmxproxy/ workspace, DCL
adapter files, and related docs to deprecated/. Removed LmxProxy registration
from DataConnectionFactory, project reference from DCL, protocol option from
UI, and cleaned up all requirement docs.
Switch site host to WebApplicationBuilder with Kestrel HTTP/2 gRPC server,
add GrpcPort/keepalive config, wire SiteStreamManager as ISiteStreamSubscriber,
expose gRPC ports in docker-compose, add site seed script, update all 10
requirement docs + CLAUDE.md + README.md for the new dual-transport architecture.
Organize documentation by moving requirements (HighLevelReqs, Component-*,
lmxproxy_protocol) to docs/requirements/ and test infrastructure docs to
docs/test_infra/. Updates all cross-references in README, CLAUDE.md,
infra/README, component docs, and 23 plan files.
Joseph Doherty