A deploy that triggers a FULL address-space rebuild clears `_alarmConditions`
and re-materialises every condition node fresh — inactive, acked, confirmed,
unshelved. The engine reloads its persisted state and re-derives Active from the
predicate, so it ends up correct; but there is no transition to report, so
`LoadAsync` yields `EmissionKind.None` and `OnEngineEmission` drops it. Nothing
writes the node.
Live-reproduced on the docker-dev rig against the pre-fix image: an alarm that
had fired and cleared but was still UNACKNOWLEDGED came back from a rebuild
reporting Acknowledged with Retain=false — so it disappeared from
ConditionRefresh entirely, while the engine still held Unacknowledged. An
operator's outstanding alarm silently vanishes from the alarm list on deploy.
`ScriptedAlarmHostActor.ReassertConditionNodes` closes it. After each load it
reads the new `ScriptedAlarmEngine.GetProjections()` and sends one
`AlarmStateUpdate` per alarm NOT in the Part 9 no-event position.
Load-bearing properties:
- Node-only. It sends `AlarmStateUpdate` and nothing else — never the `alerts`
topic, never the telemetry hub. `alerts` is the historization path, so a row
per alarm per deploy would append a duplicate historian/AVEVA record every
time anyone deploys. This is why it reads a projection rather than re-emitting:
`ScriptedAlarmProjection` carries no `EmissionKind`, so there is nothing for
the emission machinery — or a future refactor — to mistake for a transition.
The issue's sketch said `GetState(alarmId)` + `LoadedAlarmIds`; that alone
would have clobbered the node's severity and message, so the projection also
carries the definition's severity, the resolved message template, and the
last-observed worst-input quality.
- Only non-normal alarms. One in the no-event position already matches what the
materialise built, so a never-fired alarm stays byte-identical to a deploy
without this pass (including its Message, which the materialise seeds with the
display name), and an all-normal deploy writes nothing at all.
- Timestamp is the condition's own `LastTransitionUtc`, not the deploy instant.
- No duplicate Part 9 events: `WriteAlarmCondition`'s delta-gate compares against
the node's CURRENT state, so a re-assert onto a freshly materialised node is a
genuine delta (fires once — correct, the rebuild reset what clients see) while
one onto a surgically-preserved node is suppressed.
Tests: 6 new host tests + 6 new engine tests. Falsifiability checked by
disabling the call — 4 of the 6 host tests go red; the other 2 are absence
guards against an over-broad fix and pass either way by design.
Live gate (docker-dev, central-2, pre-fix image vs. rebuilt image):
- pre-fix: condition absent from ConditionRefresh after a rebuild;
- post-fix: present, Unacknowledged, Retain=True, stamped with its own
LastTransitionUtc rather than the restart instant;
- /alerts stayed empty across two re-asserts, with the panel proven live by a
real ACTIVATED transition immediately afterwards — no duplicate history.
Joseph Doherty
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