AlarmConditionState.Severity mixed two conventions: OPC UA rows carried Part 9
Severity (higher = more severe) while MxGateway native alarms and computed
alarms carried a raw AVEVA-style priority (1 = most urgent). Every consumer
ranks higher as worse, so Worst Severity, the severity filter/sort and the
site event-log Error threshold picked the LEAST urgent MxGateway/computed
alarms.
- AlarmPriorityBands: the OtOpcUa GalaxyAlarmPriority table (lmxopcua#887,
b61f3e05), value for value: 1-250 -> 1000, 251-500 -> 750, 501-750 -> 500,
751-999 -> 250; <= 0 clamps to Critical, > 999 to Low.
- MxGatewayAlarmMapper bands the gateway severity (= AVEVA priority);
AlarmConditionStateFactory.ForComputed bands PriorityLevel. OPC UA unchanged.
- AlarmConditionState gains trailing Priority (int?): the raw source number,
exactly the pre-#129 Severity. AlarmStateChanged.Priority and the wire
AlarmStateUpdate.priority keep that meaning (no proto change); central derives
Severity by kind (SeverityFromPriority), so an older site decodes correctly.
- ScriptAlarm gains trailing Priority. The native MES 900-999 band and the MES
API Severity/MinSeverity/MaxSeverity key off Priority; rig seed scripts moved
from a.Severity to a.Priority, so MES output is unchanged.
- AlarmActor raise logs Error when the banded severity >= 700 (same threshold
as NativeAlarmActor): priority 1-500 Error, 501+ Warning (was raw >= 700).
- NativeAlarmActor upgrades pre-#129 native_alarm_state rows on rehydrate.
- Debug snapshot decode restores Condition.Priority from the row's priority.
- Docs: Commons, DCL, SiteRuntime, Communication, CentralUI, InboundAPI,
HighLevelReqs, MES alarm-status plan, CLAUDE.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67ACmpMR7b9LGRPLijMi
MES alarm-status API §6.4 (docs/plans/2026-06-30-mes-alarm-status-api.md,
Phase 1 task 1). MES needs a real AckDT for a triggered alarm, and the mirror
carried acked-vs-unacked but never WHEN. AckTime now rides the whole path:
DCL transition -> AlarmStateChanged -> gRPC AlarmStateUpdate -> site SQLite.
Stamping rule, identical on both protocols: non-null ONLY while the condition
is active AND acknowledged. That single predicate yields all three required
behaviours -- null while unacked, cleared on re-raise (a re-raise arrives
unacknowledged), and no phantom ack on a return-to-normal. The last one is
load-bearing for MxGateway, which maps INACTIVE to Acknowledged = true; without
the active check every clear would claim an ack the system never observed.
Provenance is honest, never fabricated:
- OPC UA A&C supplies a TRUE ack instant, so we now select it:
AcknowledgeableConditionType/AckedState/TransitionTime at SelectClause
index 18, APPENDED so the positional reads at 0-17 keep their meaning.
Servers that omit the field fall back to the event's own Time.
- MxAccess Gateway supplies none, so the ack transition's own timestamp is
used -- accurate to when the system SAW the ack. An ACTIVE_ACKED
re-subscribe snapshot restores one from LastTransitionTimestamp rather
than dropping it.
The decision lives in pure mappers (Opc/Mx AlarmMapper.DeriveAckTime), so it is
unit-tested with no live server or gateway.
Additive-only throughout: init-only property on AlarmStateChanged, trailing
optional positional on NativeAlarmTransition (all 14-arg call sites untouched),
proto field 24 (never reusing a number) regenerated via docker/regen-proto.sh
sitestream with the csproj diff verified empty.
Persistence rides native_alarm_state's existing metadata_json blob rather than
a new column -- deliberately. That table is RegisterReplicated in
SiteLocalDbSetup and LocalDb builds its CDC triggers from the column list at
registration time, so an additive JSON property changes no schema, no triggers
and no replication contract; metadata_json is exactly the extension point UA4
introduced for this. Rows written before the field deserialize it as null.
Tests: 4 OPC UA + 6 MxGateway mapper cases, 3 NativeAlarmActor (emit,
failover rehydrate, pre-AckTime row), 1 proto round-trip incl. the null case,
4 Commons additive/back-compat. The OPC UA SelectClause count lock-in moves
18 -> 19 with an index-18 assertion -- intended, the clause is appended, which
is precisely what that guard exists to make visible.
Surface native (Galaxy/MxGateway) alarms by their object-relative reference
(e.g. "Z28061.HeartbeatTimeoutAlarm") instead of the gateway's full provider
reference ("Galaxy!<area>.<object>.<alarm>"). The area is already preserved in
Category and the object reference is globally unique within the galaxy, so the
full provider prefix added only noise to the alarm identity operators see.
MxGatewayAlarmMapper.MapTransition/MapSnapshot now set SourceReference from
SourceObjectReference, falling back to AlarmFullReference only when the gateway
omits the object reference. +2 mapper tests; full DCL suite green (158).
OPC UA (RealOpcUaClient):
- Append 5 new SelectClauses at indices 13–17 (never renumber 0–12):
- 13: AlarmConditionType/ActiveState/TransitionTime → OriginalRaiseTime
- 14–17: LimitAlarmType HighHighLimit/HighLimit/LowLimit/LowLowLimit → LimitValue
- New OpcUaAlarmMapper.PickLimitValue helper: first non-null in HiHi→Hi→Lo→LoLo
priority order, InvariantCulture-formatted; empty string for non-limit alarm types.
- HandleAlarmEvent reads new indices with fields.Count > N guards; hard minimum (6)
unchanged so base ConditionType events still process without the limit fields.
- Document unavailable-by-protocol fields (Category, Description, OperatorUser,
CurrentValue) inline in BuildAlarmEventFilter and HandleAlarmEvent.
MxGateway (MxGatewayAlarmMapper):
- MapTransition: CurrentValue and LimitValue now populated via MxValueToString
(uses MxValueExtensions.ToClrValue + InvariantCulture) from OnAlarmTransitionEvent
proto fields current_value/limit_value.
- MapSnapshot: same — populated from ActiveAlarmSnapshot.current_value/limit_value.
- MxValueToString helper (internal): null-safe MxValue → string conversion.
Tests (17 new, 40 total pass):
- OpcUaAlarmMapperTests: PickLimitValue priority, InvariantCulture, all-null case.
- MxGatewayAlarmMapperTests: CurrentValue/LimitValue populate from double/string
MxValue; absent fields yield empty strings.
- RealOpcUaClientAlarmFilterTests: index alignment assertions (count=18, per-index
TypeDefinitionId+BrowsePath), regression guard on existing indices 0–12.
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.
Adds IAlarmSubscribableConnection to MxGatewayDataConnection (shared session-less
feed, ref-counted), IMxGatewayClient.RunAlarmStreamAsync over the package
StreamAlarmsAsync with internal reconnect, and MxGatewayAlarmMapper
(AlarmFeedMessage/OnAlarmTransitionEvent -> NativeAlarmTransition). Behavior
verified against a live gateway in Task 28; mapper unit-tested.
Joseph Doherty