A pending local ack can outlive its own delivery (sources that send no
Acknowledge back; a Clear now only carries it through), so a later failed
re-ack — or a stale Galaxy confirmation timing out after the alarm re-occurred
and was acked again — could revert an ack it does not own. MarkAcknowledged
now issues a sequence (0 when the ack changed nothing), carried on
RouteAlarmAck and echoed on AlarmAckFailed; TryRevertAcknowledge reverts only
on a matching sequence.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AD99zQQqpLCVm3p7xk
NativeAlarmProjector dropped the pending local ack on EVERY driver transition,
so an operator ack followed by the alarm returning to normal (a Clear carrying
the optimistic ack) inside the confirmation window made a later "not
confirmed" report a no-op — the condition stayed inactive+acked while Galaxy
showed UNACK_RTN. Only a transition that states the ack (Acknowledge,
ActiveAcknowledged, or an un-acking Raise/Retrigger/InactiveUnacknowledged)
now settles it; a Clear / same-message Raise / Unspecified update leaves it
revertible, and the revert projects inactive+unacked.
Tests: projector + host end-to-end (ack, Clear, confirmation fails -> inactive
+ unacked); tightened the confirmed-ack positive controls; pinned that the
confirmation receives the same request instance as AcknowledgeAsync.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AD99zQQqpLCVm3p7xk
The native-ack path is fire-and-forget after the Part 9 Acknowledge returns, so
a Galaxy ack refused for lack of a credential (#749), or rejected by MXAccess,
left the client with Good and the condition showing Acknowledged while Galaxy
was never acked. Both options from the issue, layered:
1. Synchronous refusal for what the driver can decide without I/O. New optional
IAlarmAcknowledgePreflight (Core.Abstractions); GalaxyDriver refuses an
anonymous session when the driver has no AlarmAck fallback account.
DriverHostActor publishes a condition NodeId -> owning-driver snapshot into
NativeAlarmAckPreflightView (lock-free, volatile); the node manager's new
NativeAlarmAckPreflight seam, consulted after the authz and Primary gates,
returns BadUserAccessDenied with the reason - nothing routed, applied or
reported. A keyed session is not pre-checked (its identity lives in the
Secrets store, which must not be read under the SDK lock).
2. Revert for everything else. RouteAlarmAck carries the condition NodeId;
DriverInstanceActor replies AlarmAckFailed on a refusal, a backend failure,
a driver without an alarm source, or an ack dropped while connecting /
reconnecting. DriverHostActor re-projects the condition unacknowledged via
NativeAlarmProjector.TryRevertAcknowledge, but only while the local ack is
still pending - any driver transition projected since then wins. A disabled
or unspawned driver is not reverted (unchanged).
GatewayGalaxyAlarmAcknowledger now throws DriverOperationRefusedException on a
non-zero native hresult (wrong password, no ack permission) instead of only
warning, so that case reverts too; as a refusal it neither retries nor trips
the breaker.
Tests (each fails with its fix mutated out): projector revert/supersede,
DriverHostActor refused + failed ack -> unacked AlarmStateUpdate (successful
ack control), preflight view snapshot, node-manager preflight unit test,
over-the-wire ConditionMethodEventTests (BadUserAccessDenied, no route, no
event; positive control), Galaxy preflight + hresult refusal.
Docs: Galaxy.md, AlarmTracking.md, ScriptedAlarms.md, .claude/rules/alarms.md.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67AEHd2Acv1YPwGfXEoV
After an OpcUaClient respawn an upstream inactive+unacked condition went out as
Retrigger+Clear (duplicate Activated+Cleared rows, Active flicker), and a
first-sight inactive+acked one as Unspecified (an Activated row for an inactive
alarm; a retained-Active host condition never cleared).
- New AlarmTransitionKind.InactiveUnacknowledged: one projection, rows only for
what changed (Activated+Cleared from acked, Cleared from active+unacked, none
when already inactive+unacked).
- OpcUaClient uses it for moves into inactive+unacked; first sight of an
inactive condition is InactiveUnacknowledged or Clear+Acknowledge, flagged.
- Projector: a flagged Acknowledge on an already-acked condition writes no row.
- E2E tests through DriverHostActor.ForwardNativeAlarm (red-proven).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
M1 drop-out is a no-row Unspecified+IsRestatement update (projector case); M2 ack judged over every declared
limit; L1 ActiveAcknowledged for an already-acked new limit; L2 Bad Acked/severity carried/skipped; L3 host
end-to-end test; L4 BOOL member-by-member tests + mixed ALMD/ALMA; L5 detection requires no plain Acked.
ALMD active bit is InAlarm per Rockwell's ALMD reference; InFaulted is input health.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
- AlarmTransitionKind.ActiveAcknowledged (appended): active AND acked applied as ONE projection.
Galaxy ActiveAcked snapshot entries and OpcUaClient inactive->(active,acked) use it; the
projector writes 'Activated' only if not already active, 'Acknowledged' only if not acked.
- AlarmEventArgs.IsRestatement (optional, default false): set only by Galaxy snapshot entries
and OpcUaClient first sight. A flagged Retrigger on an Active+unacked condition with the same
message and severity, or a flagged Clear on an inactive condition, writes no /alerts row.
- NativeAlarmProjector reports the history rows per transition; ForwardNativeAlarm writes one
row per entry. Unflagged sources (FOCAS/MTConnect/AbCip, live Galaxy) are unchanged.
- Tests: projector rules each with a must-write control; OpcUaClient transition table;
Galaxy feed/driver mapping; Galaxy + OpcUaClient end-to-end through DriverHostActor.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
R1: NativeAlarmProjector treats Raise-on-Active as a re-statement only when the message matches what
the condition shows; a different alarm appearing during a respawn un-acks and writes its alerts row.
FOCAS condition messages are a deterministic function of the matched set (tested across fresh driver
instances and reordered lists); Runtime E2E now covers both the same alarm and a new one during a
respawn. Residual (source message determinism) documented in AlarmTracking.md.
R2: a non-OK cnc_rdalmmsg2 return is thrown as FocasWireException{Rc} and classified as a CNC
refusal: conditions get a quality-only BadNotSupported once, one Warning, polling continues, and
driver health is untouched (no 90 s watchdog reconnect loop on a production control). Only transport
faults degrade (falsification control in the test).
R3: alarm-path health is tracked apart from the value path and combined in GetHealth: worst state,
later LastSuccessfulRead. A good value read can no longer mask a failing alarm read (no per-poll
/hosts flip) and a good alarm read cannot mask a value Degraded.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
MAJOR-1: a deploy that changes a driver's config respawns it, and the fresh instance's empty told
record re-sent Raise for every still-active alarm, un-acking acknowledged conditions and writing a
duplicate "Activated" alerts row. NativeAlarmProjector now treats Raise on an already-active
condition as a re-statement (keeps Acked; ForwardNativeAlarm skips the alerts row); only Retrigger
(or inactive->active) un-acks. Sources whose upstream ack state is authoritative send Retrigger for
an unacked re-statement: OpcUaClient on first sight (no prior told), Galaxy for an unacked active
snapshot entry. Runtime E2E drives a FRESH FOCAS driver after a redeploy and asserts the ack survives.
MAJOR-2: a failed FOCAS alarm read annotates each subscribed condition BadNoCommunication once per
outage (#626 quality-only path) with one Warning (MINOR-6), lifted to Good on recovery; failed alarm
reads degrade driver health with LastSuccessfulRead frozen (successful ones advance it), so an
alarm-only driver trips the #527 comms-loss watchdog.
MINOR-3 CLAUDE.md #630 bullet; MINOR-4 split line; MINOR-5 a non-empty cnc_rdalmmsg2 payload that
fits neither stride throws; MINOR-7 value-tag + parsed-address tables are built and swapped, never
cleared in place under the retained poll engine. Docs corrected (FOCAS.md, AlarmTracking.md, CLAUDE.md).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
DriverHostActor cleared NativeAlarmProjector's per-condition prior state on
EVERY apply, so after any deploy a driver Acknowledge of a still-active alarm
projected Active=false (writing it inactive) and a Clear of an unacknowledged
alarm projected Acked=true (silently acknowledging it). The projector is now
pruned to the conditions the new composition still carries (RetainOnly).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
AlarmEventArgs gains optional OpcUaSeverity (supersedes the four-bucket mapping, clamped
1..1000) and QualityStatusCode (projected onto the condition's Quality). An Unspecified-kind
event carrying a quality is a quality-only annotation: the host updates the condition but
publishes no alerts row. Both default null, so every existing native source is unchanged.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ef2ozxS7QPanGT8uoATbTe
#519 — a driver's OPC UA status code now reaches a client with its sub-code intact.
DriverInstanceActor projected the driver's uint onto a 3-state Good/Uncertain/Bad enum
and OtOpcUaNodeManager re-expanded Bad to a bare 0x80000000, so BadNoCommunication,
BadTypeMismatch and BadNotSupported were indistinguishable on the wire and every
driver's status constants (incl. the 16 #497 had just corrected) were diagnostic in
logs only. Resolved by option (b): the raw uint rides AttributeValuePublished ->
AttributeValueUpdate -> IOpcUaAddressSpaceSink.WriteValue, OpcUaQuality is deleted, and
severity classification is a helper (OpcUaStatus.IsGood/IsUncertain/IsBad).
The surface was wider than the issue costed (41 files, not "the sink and 3
implementations"): OpcUaQuality had non-driver producers with no uint to carry.
Each got its natural code — BadInternalError for a failed virtual-tag script,
BadNoCommunication for driver comms loss — and ScriptedAlarmHostActor's pair of
mutually-inverse uint<->enum mappers is deleted, having round-tripped a code the
engine already held. AddressSpaceApplier's removal writes deliberately keep the
generic Bad: not losing a code the driver had is this issue; inventing one for the
deploy path is a separate call.
Behaviour change: WriteAlarmQuality fires its Part 9 event on a status-code change
rather than a severity-bucket change. While the annotation was 3-state those were the
same predicate; now a move between two Bad reasons changes what a subscriber reads.
New SDK-free named constants live on Commons.OpcUa.OpcUaStatus, and
StatusCodeParityTests is widened to cover them — that guard is reflection-driven, so
it can only see a named constant, never an inline literal.
#517 — the symptom is real but the issue named the wrong path and its fix was unsafe.
ShutdownAsync cannot race: DriverInstanceActor calls it from PostStop, after the
mailbox drains. (Core/Hosting/DriverHost, the one class with a concurrent GetHealth,
has no production call site.) InitializeAsync can: it runs on a fire-and-forget
Task.Run, and MTConnectDriver writes Healthy then starts loops that can throw into a
catch which disposes the client before writing Faulted.
Moving the write earlier, as suggested, inverts the terminal state — teardown drains
in-flight loops that write health as they unwind, so a late loop could leave Healthy at
rest with every connection closed. The fix is a bracket (conservative before, terminal
after), applied to MTConnect's init-failure path only; shutdown keeps its single
trailing write, and the rule plus the reachability table are documented on
IDriver.ShutdownAsync.
CalculationDriver.GetHealth returned a hard-coded Healthy that consulted nothing —
Healthy before initialize, after shutdown and after dispose. Now derived from _running.
Its test, named Health_is_always_Connected, asserted the defect and is replaced.
Every new guard was falsified by breaking the production code and watching it go red.
The two sub-code tests each assert two different Bad codes, since a single-code
assertion could pass against a hard-coded constant under the old projection.
Pre-existing failures, verified unchanged on a stashed tree and not chased: 4 in
Driver.AbLegacy.IntegrationTests (slc500/micrologix/plc5 fixtures not up) and 3 in
Host.IntegrationTests.
Closes#517Closes#519
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015p7wGqy3YpZNCpDzTpGMKo
Part 9 ConditionType.Quality was never assigned; default(StatusCode)==Good
so every native + scripted condition reported Good unconditionally — a
comms-lost device still showed a healthy, inactive, Good condition (a
wrong-VALUE bug, distinct from the null-value #473/#475). Clients (and HMIs
bucketing on IsGood) could not tell "genuinely inactive" from "lost contact".
Layer 1 — make Quality a real, plumbed field:
- AlarmConditionSnapshot gains OpcUaQuality Quality (default Good).
- MaterialiseAlarmCondition sets it (native BadWaitingForInitialData, scripted Good).
- WriteAlarmCondition projects snapshot.Quality; the delta-gate gains a Quality
member so a quality-bucket change fires a Part 9 event.
Layer 2 — drive native quality from driver connectivity (a comms-lost driver
emits no alarm transitions, and an alarm-bearing raw tag has no value variable,
so quality can't come from either existing channel):
- DriverInstanceActor Tells parent ConnectivityChanged on Connected/Reconnecting.
- DriverHostActor fans it to every native condition the driver owns as
OpcUaPublishActor.AlarmQualityUpdate (Good on connect, Bad on disconnect).
- New dedicated IOpcUaAddressSpaceSink.WriteAlarmQuality sets ONLY Quality and
fires only on a bucket change — never touches Active/Acked/Retain (an active
alarm that loses comms stays active). Not a full-snapshot re-projection, so it
can't clobber severity/message and works for a never-fired condition.
Forwarded through DeferredAddressSpaceSink (F10b trap; auto-verified by the
reflection forwarding guard). Ungated by redundancy role; no /alerts row.
Scripted conditions stay Good; worst-of-input quality deferred to #478 (Layer 3).
Tests: node-level (materialise/project/no-clobber/unknown-node no-op),
NativeAlarmProjector, DriverInstanceActor connectivity emission, DriverHostActor
fan-out, OpcUaPublishActor routing, and the wire-level guard
(Condition_event_Quality_tracks_source_connectivity_on_the_wire) — RED-verified
against a simulated pre-fix always-Good server. Existing DriverInstanceActor
parent probes ignore the new ConnectivityChanged.
Docs: docs/AlarmTracking.md §"Condition source-data Quality (#477)";
design doc docs/plans/2026-07-17-alarm-condition-quality-477-design.md.
Joseph Doherty