Enables the alarm store-and-forward sink on all four driver nodes of the
docker-dev rig -- the replicating site-a pair and the default-OFF site-b pin
-- so the live gate has a real buffer to watch converge, and can see that
site-b's sink works as a plain node-local queue with no peer traffic.
Two rig details worth stating rather than rediscovering. The endpoint is
deliberately unresolvable: there is no HistorianGateway here, so every drain
attempt fails, which is exactly the historian-outage state the buffer exists
for. But it still has to be a syntactically valid absolute http(s) URI or the
host refuses to start, because ServerHistorianOptionsValidator is
consumer-gated -- AlarmHistorian:Enabled=true makes the endpoint required
even while ServerHistorian:Enabled=false. And MaxAttempts is raised far above
the production default of 10, which against a permanently unreachable gateway
would dead-letter the entire queue about five minutes in, turning a buffering
test into a dead-letter test.
Docs record what an operator now has to know: that a rising queue depth on a
Secondary is correct and on BOTH nodes is not (that shape is a redundancy
snapshot naming neither node -- check node identity before suspecting the
sink), that delivery is at-least-once across a failover by design with no
dedup layer, and that AlarmHistorian:DatabasePath is removed but should be
left in place through the upgrade because the migrator still reads it to find
the file to copy.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GASWkNEi68FSCtvr6rLoEW
HistorianGateway is now the sole historian backend (read + alarm SendEvent +
continuous WriteLiveValues). Document the final state and retire the Wonderware
sidecar from the docs/config/labels:
- CLAUDE.md: rewrite the Historian section — ServerHistorian /
ContinuousHistorization / AlarmHistorian config keys, the IHistorianProvisioning
EnsureTags hook, the GatewayAlarmHistorianWriter SendEvent path + ReadEvents
dependency on gateway RuntimeDb:EventReadsEnabled=true, gateway-side
prerequisites (RuntimeDb flags + historian:read/write/tags:write scopes),
migration note, and two KNOWN-LIMITATION callouts (live-validation gate +
empty historized-ref-set recorder follow-on).
- appsettings.json: fix the stale ServerHistorian block (Host/Port/SharedSecret/
ServerCertThumbprint -> Endpoint/ApiKey/UseTls/AllowUntrustedServerCertificate/
CaCertificatePath/CallTimeout, keep MaxTieClusterOverfetch); add a disabled
ContinuousHistorization block; prune the orphaned Wonderware keys from
AlarmHistorian (keep the SQLite knobs). ApiKey env-supplied via
ServerHistorian__ApiKey (commented; valid strict JSON via _comment keys).
- README.md + docs (Historian.md, AlarmHistorian.md, Configuration.md,
ServiceHosting.md, DriverLifecycle.md, drivers/README.md, Uns.md, VirtualTags.md,
AlarmTracking.md, Client.UI.md, README.md, TestConnectProbes.md): retire the
Wonderware historian backend from current-backend descriptions; fix the stale
ServerHistorian/AlarmHistorian config tables (now gateway shape); convert
drivers/Historian.Wonderware.md to a retired stub pointing at the gateway.
- Source/UI labels (descriptive text only, no behavior change):
OtOpcUaServerHostedService.cs, HistoryPaging.cs, OtOpcUaSdkServer.cs,
HistorianAdapterActor.cs, VirtualTagModal.razor, ScriptedAlarmModal.razor,
AlarmsHistorian.razor now name the HistorianGateway backend.
Build clean (0 errors); AdminUI.Tests green (514 passed).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012SDSQ3AcaXqPcBtDESBRii
Joseph Doherty