fix(health): active tier reports the cluster Primary, not the admin role leader

Closes the remaining half of #494, and corrects the half fixed in 8dd9da7d.

The shared ActiveNodeHealthCheck(role: "admin") answered the wrong question twice
over. It returns Healthy for any node LACKING the role, so all four driver-only
site nodes called themselves active and no consumer could find the Primary of a
site Cluster. And it selects by RoleLeader - the lowest-ADDRESSED member - which
is not where Akka places singletons.

Replaced with ClusterPrimaryHealthCheck ("cluster-primary"). One rule: this node
is active iff it is the OLDEST Up member carrying its own active role, where the
active role is admin when the node has it and driver otherwise. That serves both
consumers correctly - a fused admin node answers for admin, so Traefik pins the
AdminUI to the node hosting the singletons; a driver-only site node answers for
driver, which is exactly SelectDriverPrimary, the same election behind
IsDriverPrimary and the OPC UA ServiceLevel 250/240 split. Per-mesh scoping is
free after Phase 6: ClusterState.Members already contains only this node's own
Cluster.

SelectDriverPrimary is generalised to SelectOldestUpMemberOfRole so the
age-ordering rule has one implementation. Two copies of "oldest Up member of a
role" would be two chances to silently disagree about who is in charge, and the
tier and the redundancy snapshot must never disagree.

THE ROLE-LEADER HALF MATTERED IN PRACTICE, not just in theory. On the rebuilt rig
the two orderings diverge right now:

  akka leader (lowest address) = central-1
  oldest admin member          = central-2   <- hosts the singletons

8dd9da7d made the tier a real 503 but still selected by RoleLeader, so it would
have pinned Traefik to central-1 - the node NOT hosting the work. With this change
Traefik correctly routes to central-2.

Live-verified, exactly one 200 per mesh:

  MAIN     central-2 200   central-1 503     traefik: central-2 UP, central-1 DOWN
  SITE-A   site-a-1  200   site-a-2  503
  SITE-B   site-b-1  200   site-b-2  503

Tests: role-selection matrix and the startup-safe Degraded path in Host.Tests
(26 pass); parity between the tier's selector and the redundancy snapshot's, plus
role scoping, added to RedundancyPrimaryElectionTests, which forms a real two-node
cluster deliberately built so the oldest member is not the lowest-addressed one
(5 pass).
This commit is contained in:
Joseph Doherty
2026-07-24 12:43:27 -04:00
parent 8dd9da7d4d
commit 4550486144
5 changed files with 267 additions and 7 deletions
@@ -141,12 +141,30 @@ public sealed class RedundancyStateActor : ReceiveActor, IWithTimers
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="members">The current cluster members, in any order.</param>
/// <returns>The oldest Up driver member's address, or <c>null</c> when there is none.</returns>
public static Address? SelectDriverPrimary(IEnumerable<Member> members)
public static Address? SelectDriverPrimary(IEnumerable<Member> members) =>
SelectOldestUpMemberOfRole(members, DriverRole);
/// <summary>
/// Selects the oldest Up member carrying <paramref name="role"/> — the node that
/// <c>ClusterSingletonManager</c> would place a role-scoped singleton on.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="members">The current cluster members, in any order.</param>
/// <param name="role">The cluster role to scope the selection to.</param>
/// <returns>The oldest Up member's address for that role, or <c>null</c> when there is none.</returns>
/// <remarks>
/// The age-ordering rationale in <see cref="SelectDriverPrimary"/> applies verbatim to any role:
/// oldest, never <c>RoleLeader</c>. Factored out so the rule has exactly one implementation —
/// the health tier that reports which node is active needs the same answer the redundancy
/// snapshot does, and two copies of "oldest Up member of a role" would be two chances to
/// silently disagree about who is in charge.
/// </remarks>
public static Address? SelectOldestUpMemberOfRole(IEnumerable<Member> members, string role)
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(members);
ArgumentException.ThrowIfNullOrWhiteSpace(role);
return members
.Where(m => m.Status == MemberStatus.Up && m.Roles.Contains(DriverRole))
.Where(m => m.Status == MemberStatus.Up && m.Roles.Contains(role))
.OrderBy(m => m, Member.AgeOrdering)
.FirstOrDefault()
?.Address;
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
using Akka.Actor;
using Akka.Cluster;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Diagnostics.HealthChecks;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Cluster;
using ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.ControlPlane.Redundancy;
namespace ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host.Health;
/// <summary>
/// The active tier's answer to "is this the node in charge of this cluster?" — Healthy (200) on the
/// one node that owns the active work for its mesh, Unhealthy (503) on its partner.
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// <para>
/// Replaces the shared <c>ActiveNodeHealthCheck(role: "admin")</c>, which answered a
/// different question and got it wrong twice. It was scoped to the <c>admin</c> role and
/// returns Healthy for any node that lacks that role, so all four driver-only site nodes
/// reported themselves active; and it selected by <c>RoleLeader</c>, the
/// <i>lowest-addressed</i> member, which is not where Akka places singletons. See
/// <c>lmxopcua#494</c>.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// The rule here is one sentence: <b>this node is active iff it is the oldest Up member
/// carrying its own active role</b>, where the active role is <c>admin</c> when the node has
/// it and <c>driver</c> otherwise. That single rule serves both consumers correctly:
/// </para>
/// <list type="bullet">
/// <item><description>
/// A fused admin node answers for the <c>admin</c> role, so Traefik pins the AdminUI to
/// the node actually hosting the cluster singletons — which
/// <c>ClusterSingletonManager</c> places on the <b>oldest</b> member, not the role
/// leader. The two diverge after any restart.
/// </description></item>
/// <item><description>
/// A driver-only site node answers for the <c>driver</c> role, which is exactly
/// <see cref="RedundancyStateActor.SelectDriverPrimary"/> — the same election that
/// drives <c>IsDriverPrimary</c> and the OPC UA <c>ServiceLevel</c> 250/240 split. So
/// the tier and the ServiceLevel can no longer disagree about which node is Primary.
/// </description></item>
/// </list>
/// <para>
/// Scoping is per-mesh for free: after per-cluster mesh Phase 6 a node's
/// <c>ClusterState.Members</c> contains only its own application <c>Cluster</c>, so
/// "oldest Up member" is already "oldest Up member of this <c>Cluster</c>" — exactly one
/// node answers 200 per <c>Cluster</c>, by construction rather than by filtering.
/// </para>
/// <para>
/// Startup-safe, matching the shared check it replaces: before the <see cref="ActorSystem"/>
/// or the cluster is available the result is Degraded, not Unhealthy, so a node that is
/// merely still booting is not reported as a failed standby.
/// </para>
/// </remarks>
public sealed class ClusterPrimaryHealthCheck : IHealthCheck
{
private readonly IServiceProvider _serviceProvider;
/// <summary>Initializes a new <see cref="ClusterPrimaryHealthCheck"/>.</summary>
/// <param name="serviceProvider">
/// The application service provider. The <see cref="ActorSystem"/> is resolved lazily so the
/// check is startup-safe.
/// </param>
public ClusterPrimaryHealthCheck(IServiceProvider serviceProvider) =>
_serviceProvider = serviceProvider ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(serviceProvider));
/// <summary>
/// The role whose oldest Up member owns the active work for <paramref name="selfRoles"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="selfRoles">The local member's cluster roles.</param>
/// <returns>
/// <see cref="RoleParser.Admin"/> when the node carries it, otherwise
/// <see cref="RoleParser.Driver"/> when it carries that, otherwise <c>null</c> for a node in
/// neither role.
/// </returns>
/// <remarks>
/// Admin wins on a fused node because that is the role the cluster singletons — and the AdminUI
/// that Traefik routes to — are pinned to.
/// </remarks>
public static string? ActiveRoleFor(IEnumerable<string> selfRoles)
{
ArgumentNullException.ThrowIfNull(selfRoles);
var roles = selfRoles as IReadOnlyCollection<string> ?? selfRoles.ToList();
if (roles.Contains(RoleParser.Admin))
return RoleParser.Admin;
return roles.Contains(RoleParser.Driver) ? RoleParser.Driver : null;
}
/// <inheritdoc/>
public Task<HealthCheckResult> CheckHealthAsync(
HealthCheckContext context,
CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
var system = _serviceProvider.GetService<ActorSystem>();
if (system is null)
return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Degraded("ActorSystem not yet available."));
Member self;
IEnumerable<Member> members;
try
{
var cluster = Akka.Cluster.Cluster.Get(system);
self = cluster.SelfMember;
members = cluster.State.Members;
}
catch (Exception ex) when (ex is not OperationCanceledException)
{
return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Degraded("Akka cluster state not yet accessible.", ex));
}
var role = ActiveRoleFor(self.Roles);
if (role is null)
{
// Neither admin nor driver. RoleParser will not produce such a node today, so this is a
// guard rather than a supported topology — reported Healthy because the tier has no
// opinion about a node that owns no active work, not because the node is in charge.
return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Healthy("Node carries neither the admin nor the driver role."));
}
var primary = RedundancyStateActor.SelectOldestUpMemberOfRole(members, role);
var data = new Dictionary<string, object>(StringComparer.Ordinal)
{
["activeRole"] = role,
["selfAddress"] = self.Address.ToString(),
};
if (primary is not null)
data["primary"] = primary.ToString();
if (primary is null)
{
// No Up member holds the role — during a cold start, or while every holder is Joining or
// Leaving. Nobody is active, so nobody may claim to be.
return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Unhealthy(
$"No Up member currently carries the '{role}' role.", exception: null, data));
}
return Task.FromResult(primary == self.Address
? HealthCheckResult.Healthy($"Primary for role '{role}' (oldest Up member).", data)
: HealthCheckResult.Unhealthy($"Standby: '{role}' primary is {primary}.", exception: null, data));
}
}
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ public static class HealthEndpoints
{
/// <summary>
/// Registers the shared ZB.MOM.WW health probes. Tier semantics preserved: configdb + akka on
/// ready+active; admin-leader on active only. The configdb probe is admin-only (per-cluster mesh
/// ready+active; cluster-primary on active only. The configdb probe is admin-only (per-cluster mesh
/// Phase 4): a driver-only node holds no ConfigDb, so it is registered iff <paramref name="hasAdmin"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="services">The service collection to register the health checks on.</param>
@@ -53,11 +53,15 @@ public static class HealthEndpoints
failureStatus: null,
tags: new[] { ZbHealthTags.Ready, ZbHealthTags.Active },
args: AkkaClusterStatusPolicy.OtOpcUaCompat)
.AddTypeActivatedCheck<ActiveNodeHealthCheck>(
"admin-leader",
// "Is this node in charge of its mesh?" — the question the active tier is supposed to
// answer, and the one the shared ActiveNodeHealthCheck(role: "admin") did not. That check
// returned Healthy for any node lacking the admin role, so every driver-only site node
// called itself active, and it selected by RoleLeader (lowest address) rather than by
// age, which is not where Akka places singletons. See lmxopcua#494.
.AddTypeActivatedCheck<ClusterPrimaryHealthCheck>(
"cluster-primary",
failureStatus: null,
tags: new[] { ZbHealthTags.Active },
args: "admin")
tags: new[] { ZbHealthTags.Active })
// Registered on every node regardless of role (unlike the admin-only configdb probe above):
// the check itself resolves ISyncStatus optionally and reports Healthy when LocalDb is absent
// (admin-only graphs) or replication is default-OFF, so a plain node is never degraded by it.