- docs/drivers/FOCAS.md and docs/v2/implementation/focas-wire-protocol.md pointed at focas-deployment.md and focas-simulator-plan.md, both of which were untracked drafts that have since been removed. Drop the refs (the wire-protocol companion now stands on its own; deployment guidance lives inline in the FOCAS driver doc). - Link the orphan v2 design docs from docs/README.md (multi-host dispatch, v2 release readiness, the historical lmx-followups tracker) and from modbus-test-plan.md (s7.md, mitsubishi.md per-family quirk catalogs, sibling to dl205.md). Surfaced by the doc audit; no content changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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OtOpcUa documentation
Two tiers of documentation live here:
- Current reference at the top level (
docs/*.md) — describes what's shipped today. Start here for operator + integrator reference. - Implementation history + design notes at
docs/v2/*.md— the authoritative plan + decision log the current reference is built from. Start here when you need the why behind an architectural choice, or when a top-level doc says "see plan.md § X".
The project was originally called LmxOpcUa (a single-driver Galaxy/MXAccess OPC UA server) and has since become OtOpcUa, a multi-driver OPC UA server platform. Any lingering LmxOpcUa-string in a path you see in docs is a deliberate residual (executable name lmxopcua-cli, client PKI folder {LocalAppData}/LmxOpcUaClient/) — fixing those requires migration shims + is tracked as follow-ups.
Platform overview
- Core owns the OPC UA stack, address space, session/security/subscription machinery.
- Drivers plug in via capability interfaces in
ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions:IDriver,IReadable,IWritable,ITagDiscovery,ISubscribable,IHostConnectivityProbe,IAlarmSource,IHistoryProvider,IPerCallHostResolver. Each driver opts into whichever it supports. - Server is the OPC UA endpoint process (net10, AnyCPU). Hosts every driver in-process. The Galaxy driver reaches MXAccess via gRPC to a separately-installed mxaccessgw sidecar (sibling repo); it is no longer hosted from this repo.
- Admin is the Blazor Server operator UI (net10, x64). Owns the Config DB draft/publish flow, ACL + role-grant authoring, fleet status +
/metricsscrape endpoint.
Where to find what
Architecture + data-path reference
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| OpcUaServer.md | Top-level server architecture — Core, driver dispatch, Config DB, generations |
| AddressSpace.md | GenericDriverNodeManager + ITagDiscovery + IAddressSpaceBuilder |
| ReadWriteOperations.md | OPC UA Read/Write → CapabilityInvoker → IReadable/IWritable |
| Subscriptions.md | Monitored items → ISubscribable + per-driver subscription refcount (v1 archive) |
| AlarmTracking.md | IAlarmSource + AlarmSurfaceInvoker + OPC UA alarm conditions (v1 archive) |
| DataTypeMapping.md | Per-driver DriverAttributeInfo → OPC UA variable types (v1 archive — live mapping is in src/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Galaxy/Browse/DataTypeMap.cs) |
| IncrementalSync.md | Address-space rebuild on redeploy + sp_ComputeGenerationDiff |
| HistoricalDataAccess.md | IHistoryProvider as a per-driver optional capability (v1 archive) |
| VirtualTags.md | Core.Scripting + Core.VirtualTags — Roslyn script sandbox, engine, dispatch alongside driver tags |
| ScriptedAlarms.md | Core.ScriptedAlarms — script-predicate IAlarmSource + Part 9 state machine |
Two Core subsystems are shipped without a dedicated top-level doc; see the section in the linked doc:
| Project | See |
|---|---|
Core.AlarmHistorian |
AlarmTracking.md § Alarm historian sink (v1 archive) |
Analyzers (Roslyn OTOPCUA0001) |
security.md § OTOPCUA0001 Analyzer |
Drivers
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| drivers/README.md | Index of the eight shipped drivers + capability matrix |
| drivers/Galaxy.md | Galaxy driver — in-process gRPC client to the mxaccessgw sidecar |
| v1/drivers/Galaxy-Repository.md | Galaxy-specific discovery via the ZB SQL database (v1 archive — the gateway owns this path now) |
For Modbus / S7 / AB CIP / AB Legacy / TwinCAT / FOCAS / OPC UA Client specifics, see v2/driver-specs.md.
Operational
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| Configuration.md | appsettings bootstrap + Config DB + Admin UI draft/publish (v1 archive — OTOPCUA_GALAXY_* env vars now live in mxaccessgw config) |
| security.md | Transport security profiles, LDAP auth, ACL trie, role grants, OTOPCUA0001 analyzer |
| Redundancy.md | RedundancyCoordinator, ServiceLevelCalculator, apply-lease, Prometheus metrics |
| ServiceHosting.md | Two-process deploy (Server + Admin) install/uninstall, plus the optional OtOpcUaWonderwareHistorian sidecar |
| StatusDashboard.md | Pointer — superseded by v2/admin-ui.md |
Client tooling
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| Client.CLI.md | otopcua-cli — OPC UA command-line client |
| Client.UI.md | Avalonia desktop client |
| DriverClis.md | Driver test-client CLIs — index + shared commands |
| Driver.Modbus.Cli.md | otopcua-modbus-cli — Modbus-TCP |
| Driver.AbCip.Cli.md | otopcua-abcip-cli — ControlLogix / CompactLogix / Micro800 / GuardLogix |
| Driver.AbLegacy.Cli.md | otopcua-ablegacy-cli — SLC / MicroLogix / PLC-5 (PCCC) |
| Driver.S7.Cli.md | otopcua-s7-cli — Siemens S7-300 / S7-400 / S7-1200 / S7-1500 |
| Driver.TwinCAT.Cli.md | otopcua-twincat-cli — Beckhoff TwinCAT 2/3 ADS |
| Driver.FOCAS.Cli.md | otopcua-focas-cli — Fanuc FOCAS/2 CNC |
Requirements
| Doc | Covers |
|---|---|
| reqs/HighLevelReqs.md | HLRs — numbered system-level requirements |
| reqs/OpcUaServerReqs.md | OPC UA server-layer reqs |
| v1/reqs/ServiceHostReqs.md | Per-process hosting reqs (v1 archive — only OtOpcUa server hosting remains in scope post-PR-7.2) |
| reqs/ClientRequirements.md | Client CLI + UI reqs |
| v1/reqs/GalaxyRepositoryReqs.md | Galaxy-scoped repository reqs (v1 archive — owned by mxaccessgw today) |
| v1/reqs/MxAccessClientReqs.md | Galaxy-scoped MXAccess reqs (v1 archive — owned by mxaccessgw today) |
| reqs/StatusDashboardReqs.md | Pointer — superseded by Admin UI |
Implementation history (docs/v2/)
Design decisions + phase plans + execution notes. Load-bearing cross-references from the top-level docs:
- v2/plan.md — authoritative v2 vision doc + numbered decision log (referenced as "decision #N" elsewhere)
- v2/admin-ui.md — Admin UI spec
- v2/acl-design.md — data-plane ACL + permission-trie design (Phase 6.2)
- v2/config-db-schema.md — Config DB schema reference
- v2/driver-specs.md — per-driver addressing + quirks for every shipped protocol
- v2/dev-environment.md — dev-box bootstrap
- v2/test-data-sources.md — integration-test simulator matrix (includes the pinned libplctag
ab_serverversion for AB CIP tests) - v2/multi-host-dispatch.md — per-PLC circuit breakers (Phase 6.1 decision #144)
- v2/v2-release-readiness.md — release-readiness tracker
- v2/lmx-followups.md — historical Galaxy-bridge follow-ups (pre-PR-7.2)
- v2/implementation/phase--.md — per-phase execution plans with exit-gate evidence
v1 archive
The v1 in-process MXAccess architecture (Galaxy.Host + Galaxy.Proxy + Galaxy.Shared, .NET 4.8 x86 COM, the OtOpcUaGalaxyHost Windows service) was retired in PR 7.2 (2026-04-30, commit ae7106d). Docs that described that shape are kept under v1/ as historical record — see v1/README.md for the index.