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Joseph Doherty 52a29100b1 Phase 3 PR 38 — DriverNodeManager HistoryRead override (LMX #1 finish). Wires the OPC UA HistoryRead service through CustomNodeManager2's four protected per-kind hooks — HistoryReadRawModified / HistoryReadProcessed / HistoryReadAtTime / HistoryReadEvents — each dispatching to the driver's IHistoryProvider capability (PR 35 for ReadAtTime + ReadEvents on top of PR 19-era ReadRaw + ReadProcessed). Was the last missing piece of the end-to-end HistoryRead path: PR 10 + PR 11 shipped the Galaxy.Host IPC contracts, PR 35 surfaced them on IHistoryProvider + GalaxyProxyDriver, but no server-side handler bridged OPC UA HistoryRead service requests onto the capability interface. Now it does.
Per-kind override shape: each hook receives the pre-filtered nodesToProcess list (NodeHandles for nodes this manager claimed), iterates them, resolves handle.NodeId.Identifier to the driver-side full reference string, and dispatches to the right IHistoryProvider method. Write back into the outer results + errors slots at handle.Index (not the local loop counter — nodesToProcess is a filtered subset of nodesToRead, so indexing by the loop counter lands in the wrong slot for mixed-manager batches). WriteResult helper sets both results[i] AND errors[i]; this matters because MasterNodeManager merges them and leaving errors[i] at its default (BadHistoryOperationUnsupported) overrides a Good result with Unsupported on the wire — this was the subtle failure mode that masked a correctly-constructed HistoryData response during debugging. Failure-isolation per node: NotSupportedException from a driver that doesn't implement a particular HistoryProvider method translates to BadHistoryOperationUnsupported in that slot; generic exceptions log and surface BadInternalError; unresolvable NodeIds get BadNodeIdUnknown. The batch continues unconditionally.
Aggregate mapping: MapAggregate translates ObjectIds.AggregateFunction_Average / Minimum / Maximum / Total / Count to the driver's HistoryAggregateType enum. Null for anything else (e.g. TimeAverage, Interpolative) so the handler surfaces BadAggregateNotSupported at the batch level — per Part 13, one unsupported aggregate means the whole request fails since ReadProcessedDetails carries one aggregate list for all nodes. BuildHistoryData wraps driver DataValueSnapshots as Opc.Ua.HistoryData in an ExtensionObject; BuildHistoryEvent wraps HistoricalEvents as Opc.Ua.HistoryEvent with the canonical BaseEventType field list (EventId, SourceName, Message, Severity, Time, ReceiveTime — the order OPC UA clients that didn't customize the SelectClause expect). ToDataValue preserves null SourceTimestamp (Galaxy historian rows often carry only ServerTimestamp) — synthesizing a SourceTimestamp would lie about actual sample time.
Two address-space changes were required to make the stack dispatch reach the per-kind hooks at all: (1) historized variables get AccessLevels.HistoryRead added to their AccessLevel byte — the base's early-gate check on (variable.AccessLevel & HistoryRead != 0) was rejecting requests before our override ever ran; (2) the driver-root folder gets EventNotifiers.HistoryRead | SubscribeToEvents so HistoryReadEvents can target it (the conventional pattern for alarm-history browse against a driver-owned object). Document the 'set both bits' requirement inline since it's not obvious from the surface API.
OpcHistoryReadResult alias: Opc.Ua.HistoryReadResult (service-layer per-node result) collides with Core.Abstractions.HistoryReadResult (driver-side samples + continuation point) by type name; the alias 'using OpcHistoryReadResult = Opc.Ua.HistoryReadResult' keeps the override signatures unambiguous and the test project applies the mirror pattern for its stub driver impl.
Tests — DriverNodeManagerHistoryMappingTests (12 new Category=Unit cases): MapAggregate translates each supported aggregate NodeId via reflection-backed theory (guards against the stack renaming AggregateFunction_* constants); returns null for unsupported NodeIds (TimeAverage) and null input; BuildHistoryData wraps samples with correct DataValues + SourceTimestamp preservation; BuildHistoryEvent emits the 6-element BaseEventType field list in canonical order (regression guard for a future 'respect the client's SelectClauses' change); null SourceName / Message translate to empty-string Variants (nullable-Variant refactor trap); ToDataValue preserves StatusCode + both timestamps; ToDataValue leaves SourceTimestamp at default when the snapshot omits it. HistoryReadIntegrationTests (5 new Category=Integration): drives a real OPC UA client Session.HistoryRead against a fake HistoryDriver through the running server. Covers raw round-trip (verifies per-node DataValue ordering + values); processed with Average aggregate (captures the driver's received aggregate + interval, asserting MapAggregate routed correctly); unsupported aggregate (TimeAverage → BadAggregateNotSupported); at-time (forwards the per-timestamp list); events (BaseEventType field list shape, SelectClauses populated to satisfy the stack's filter validator). Server.Tests Unit: 55 pass / 0 fail (43 prior + 12 new mapping). Server.Tests Integration: 14 pass / 0 fail (9 prior + 5 new history). Full solution build clean, 0 errors.
lmx-followups.md #1 updated to 'DONE (PRs 35 + 38)' with two explicit deferred items: continuation-point plumbing (driver returns null today so pass-through is fine) and per-SelectClause evaluation in HistoryReadEvents (clients with custom field selections get the canonical BaseEventType layout today).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# LMX Galaxy bridge — remaining follow-ups
State after PR 19: the Galaxy driver is functionally at v1 parity through the
`IDriver` abstraction; the OPC UA server runs with LDAP-authenticated
Basic256Sha256 endpoints and alarms are observable through
`AlarmConditionState.ReportEvent`. The items below are what remains LMX-
specific before the stack can fully replace the v1 deployment, in
rough priority order.
## 1. Proxy-side `IHistoryProvider` for `ReadAtTime` / `ReadEvents` — **DONE (PRs 35 + 38)**
PR 35 extended `IHistoryProvider` with `ReadAtTimeAsync` + `ReadEventsAsync`
(default throwing implementations so existing impls keep compiling), added the
`HistoricalEvent` + `HistoricalEventsResult` records to `Core.Abstractions`,
and implemented both methods in `GalaxyProxyDriver` on top of the PR 10 / PR 11
IPC messages.
PR 38 wired the OPC UA HistoryRead service-handler through
`DriverNodeManager` by overriding `CustomNodeManager2`'s four per-kind hooks —
`HistoryReadRawModified` / `HistoryReadProcessed` / `HistoryReadAtTime` /
`HistoryReadEvents`. Each walks `nodesToProcess`, resolves the driver-side
full reference from `NodeId.Identifier`, dispatches to the right
`IHistoryProvider` method, and populates the paired results + errors lists
(both must be set — the MasterNodeManager merges them and a Good result with
an unset error slot serializes as `BadHistoryOperationUnsupported` on the
wire). Historized variables gain `AccessLevels.HistoryRead` so the stack
dispatches; the driver root folder gains `EventNotifiers.HistoryRead` so
`HistoryReadEvents` can target it.
Aggregate translation uses a small `MapAggregate` helper that handles
`Average` / `Minimum` / `Maximum` / `Total` / `Count` (the enum surface the
driver exposes) and returns null for unsupported aggregates so the handler
can surface `BadAggregateNotSupported`. Raw+Processed+AtTime wrap driver
samples as `HistoryData` in an `ExtensionObject`; Events emits a
`HistoryEvent` with the standard BaseEventType field list (EventId /
SourceName / Message / Severity / Time / ReceiveTime) — custom
`SelectClause` evaluation is an explicit follow-up.
**Tests**:
- `DriverNodeManagerHistoryMappingTests` — 12 unit cases pinning
`MapAggregate`, `BuildHistoryData`, `BuildHistoryEvent`, `ToDataValue`.
- `HistoryReadIntegrationTests` — 5 end-to-end cases drive a real OPC UA
client (`Session.HistoryRead`) against a fake `IHistoryProvider` driver
through the running stack. Covers raw round-trip, processed with Average
aggregate, unsupported aggregate → `BadAggregateNotSupported`, at-time
timestamp forwarding, and events field-list shape.
**Deferred**:
- Continuation-point plumbing via `Session.Save/RestoreHistoryContinuationPoint`.
Driver returns null continuations today so the pass-through is fine.
- Per-`SelectClause` evaluation in HistoryReadEvents — clients that send a
custom field selection currently get the standard BaseEventType layout.
## 2. Write-gating by role — **DONE (PR 26)**
Landed in PR 26. `WriteAuthzPolicy` in `Server/Security/` maps
`SecurityClassification` → required role (`FreeAccess` → no role required,
`Operate`/`SecuredWrite``WriteOperate`, `Tune``WriteTune`,
`Configure`/`VerifiedWrite``WriteConfigure`, `ViewOnly` → deny regardless).
`DriverNodeManager` caches the classification per variable during discovery and
checks the session's roles (via `IRoleBearer`) in `OnWriteValue` before calling
`IWritable.WriteAsync`. Roles do not cascade — a session with `WriteOperate`
can't write a `Tune` attribute unless it also carries `WriteTune`.
See `feedback_acl_at_server_layer.md` in memory for the architectural directive
that authz stays at the server layer and never delegates to driver-specific auth.
## 3. Admin UI client-cert trust management — **DONE (PR 28)**
PR 28 shipped `/certificates` in the Admin UI. `CertTrustService` reads the OPC
UA server's PKI store root (`OpcUaServerOptions.PkiStoreRoot` — default
`%ProgramData%\OtOpcUa\pki`) and lists rejected + trusted certs by parsing the
`.der` files directly, so it has no `Opc.Ua` dependency and runs on any
Admin host that can reach the shared PKI directory.
Operator actions: Trust (moves `rejected/certs/*.der``trusted/certs/*.der`),
Delete rejected, Revoke trust. The OPC UA stack re-reads the trusted store on
each new client handshake, so no explicit reload signal is needed —
operators retry the rejected client's connection after trusting.
Deferred: flipping `AutoAcceptUntrustedClientCertificates` to `false` as the
deployment default. That's a production-hardening config change, not a code
gap — the Admin UI is now ready to be the trust gate.
## 4. Live-LDAP integration test — **DONE (PR 31)**
PR 31 shipped `Server.Tests/LdapUserAuthenticatorLiveTests.cs` — 6 live-bind
tests against the dev GLAuth instance at `localhost:3893`, skipped cleanly
when the port is unreachable. Covers: valid bind, wrong password, unknown
user, empty credentials, single-group → WriteOperate mapping, multi-group
admin user surfacing all mapped roles.
Also added `UserNameAttribute` to `LdapOptions` (default `uid` for RFC 2307
compat) so Active Directory deployments can configure `sAMAccountName` /
`userPrincipalName` without code changes. `LdapUserAuthenticatorAdCompatTests`
(5 unit guards) pins the AD-shape DN parsing + filter escape behaviors. See
`docs/security.md` §"Active Directory configuration" for the AD appsettings
snippet.
Deferred: asserting `session.Identity` end-to-end on the server side (i.e.
drive a full OPC UA session with username/password, then read an
`IHostConnectivityProbe`-style "whoami" node to verify the role surfaced).
That needs a test-only address-space node and is a separate PR.
## 5. Full Galaxy live-service smoke test against the merged v2 stack — **IN PROGRESS (PRs 36 + 37)**
PR 36 shipped the prerequisites helper (`AvevaPrerequisites`) that probes
every dependency a live smoke test needs and produces actionable skip
messages.
PR 37 shipped the live-stack smoke test project structure:
`tests/Driver.Galaxy.Proxy.Tests/LiveStack/` with `LiveStackFixture` (connects
to the *already-running* `OtOpcUaGalaxyHost` Windows service via named pipe;
never spawns the Host process) and `LiveStackSmokeTests` covering:
- Fixture initializes successfully (IPC handshake succeeds end-to-end).
- Driver reports `DriverState.Healthy` post-handshake.
- `DiscoverAsync` returns at least one variable from the live Galaxy.
- `GetHostStatuses` reports at least one Platform/AppEngine host.
- `ReadAsync` on a discovered variable round-trips through
Proxy → Host pipe → MXAccess → back without a BadInternalError.
Shared secret + pipe name resolve from `OTOPCUA_GALAXY_SECRET` /
`OTOPCUA_GALAXY_PIPE` env vars, falling back to reading the service's
registry-stored Environment values (requires elevated test host).
**Remaining**:
- Install + run the `OtOpcUaGalaxyHost` + `OtOpcUa` services on the dev box
(`scripts/install/Install-Services.ps1`) so the skip-on-unready tests
actually execute and the smoke PR lands green.
- Subscribe-and-receive-data-change fact (needs a known tag that actually
ticks; deferred until operators confirm a scratch tag exists).
- Write-and-roundtrip fact (needs a test-only UDA or agreed scratch tag
so we can't accidentally mutate a process-critical value).
## 6. Second driver instance on the same server — **DONE (PR 32)**
`Server.Tests/MultipleDriverInstancesIntegrationTests.cs` registers two
drivers with distinct `DriverInstanceId`s on one `DriverHost`, spins up the
full OPC UA server, and asserts three behaviors: (1) each driver's namespace
URI (`urn:OtOpcUa:{id}`) resolves to a distinct index in the client's
NamespaceUris, (2) browsing one subtree returns that driver's folder and
does NOT leak the other driver's folder, (3) reads route to the correct
driver — the alpha instance returns 42 while beta returns 99, so a misroute
would surface at the assertion layer.
Deferred: the alarm-event multi-driver parity case (two drivers each raising
a `GalaxyAlarmEvent`, assert each condition lands on its owning instance's
condition node). Alarm tracking already has its own integration test
(`AlarmSubscription*`); the multi-driver alarm case would need a stub
`IAlarmSource` that's worth its own focused PR.
## 7. Host-status per-AppEngine granularity → Admin UI dashboard — **DONE (PRs 33 + 34)**
**PR 33** landed the data layer: `DriverHostStatus` entity + migration with
composite key `(NodeId, DriverInstanceId, HostName)` and two query-supporting
indexes (per-cluster drill-down on `NodeId`, stale-row detection on
`LastSeenUtc`).
**PR 34** wired the publisher + consumer. `HostStatusPublisher` is a
`BackgroundService` in the Server process that walks every registered
`IHostConnectivityProbe`-capable driver every 10s, calls
`GetHostStatuses()`, and upserts rows (`LastSeenUtc` advances each tick;
`State` + `StateChangedUtc` update on transitions). Admin UI `/hosts` page
groups by cluster, shows four summary cards (Hosts / Running / Stale /
Faulted), and flags rows whose `LastSeenUtc` is older than 30s as Stale so
operators see crashed Servers without waiting for a state change.
Deferred as follow-ups:
- Event-driven push (subscribe to `OnHostStatusChanged` per driver for
sub-heartbeat latency). Adds DriverHost lifecycle-event plumbing;
10s polling is fine for operator-scale use.
- Failure-count column — needs the publisher to track a transition history
per host, not just current-state.
- SignalR fan-out to the Admin page (currently the page polls the DB, not
a hub). The DB-polled version is fine at current cadence but a hub push
would eliminate the 10s race where a new row sits in the DB before the
Admin page notices.