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fix(galaxy): AVEVA priority 1 is the most urgent: Galaxy alarm Severity follows AVEVA's priority bands, live and history alike (#887)
GalaxyAlarmPriority, the one table live Galaxy alarms (MxAccessSeverityMapper)
and AVEVA A&E history (EventMapper, #886) map the AVEVA priority through, ranked
a higher number as more severe. AVEVA ranks priority 1 as the most urgent, so a
priority-1 alarm read 250 and a priority-999 system event 1000.

It now uses AVEVA's default priority ranges, most urgent first:

  AVEVA priority  AVEVA severity  bucket    OPC UA Severity
  1-250           1 Critical      Critical  1000
  251-500         2 High          High       750
  501-750         3 Medium        Medium     500
  751-999         4 Low           Low        250
  (history only)  0 not an alarm  -            1

Out-of-range priorities clamp (<= 0 Critical, > 999 Low). Evidence, vd03
Runtime.dbo.Events read-only: priority 1/100 alarms carry AVEVA severity 1,
400/500 severity 2, 600/700 severity 3, and every priority-999 System.* /
User.* row severity 0 with IsAlarm 0.

- Live and history now use the same number. GalaxyDriver passes the table's
  exact value as AlarmEventArgs.OpcUaSeverity. Before, it passed only the bucket,
  which NativeAlarmProjector re-mapped through its generic 200/500/700/900
  ladder, so live and history disagreed even before the direction fix.
- History: a row whose AVEVA severity is 0 (System.Start/Stop/Deploy,
  User.Write...) is not an alarm and reads Severity 1, below every alarm band.
  For alarms AVEVA's 1-4 severity is still never the value: the live feed
  carries only the priority, so it cannot use it, and history must agree.
- Docs: docs/Historian.md gains "Galaxy alarm priority -> Severity
  (lmxopcua#887)"; docs/AlarmTracking.md updated.
- Live re-run of the #801/#886 harness against vd03 HistorianGateway
  ea9f21c (read-only, network-only): 224 of 233 cases identical to the #886
  run, the 9 others differ only in Severity (priority-700 alarm rows 750 ->
  500, 19 system/user events 1000 -> 1). Record: aveva-history-801.md
  "#887 re-run", report aveva-gate-sdk2-887.json.gz.

Client-visible: every OPC UA client that ranks or filters Galaxy alarms by
Severity sees the order reversed (live and HistoryReadEvents). ScadaBridge has
no code that depends on the old values; its own mixed severity directions are
ScadaBridge#129.

Tests updated because they pinned the inverted table:
- Driver.Galaxy.Tests MxAccessSeverityMapperTests (rewritten: edges 1/250/251/
  500/501/750/751/999, 0/-100/int.MinValue/1000/int.MaxValue clamps,
  monotonic-decreasing sweep, equals GalaxyAlarmPriority for -2..1001)
- Driver.Galaxy.Tests GatewayGalaxyAlarmFeedTests (750 and 600 -> Medium)
- Driver.Historian.Gateway.Tests EventMapperTests (band table, priority 999
  -> 250, 1 -> 1000; system events -> 1)
- OpcUaServer.IntegrationTests GalaxyEquipmentEventHistoryWireTests (700 ->
  500, 100 -> 1000, System.Stop -> 1; the fake now stores AVEVA's real 0-4
  severity)

New tests:
- Runtime.Tests NativeAlarmRestatementEndToEndTests
  .Galaxy_live_condition_severity_is_the_AVEVA_priority_band (8 rows: the real
  feed -> real GalaxyDriver -> host -> projector; the same rows EventMapperTests
  pins on the history path)
- EventMapperTests.Aveva_severity_zero_marks_an_event_that_is_not_an_alarm
  (5 rows, incl. the priority-999 alarm positive control)
- GalaxyDriverAlarmSourceTests: OpcUaSeverity passes through

Mutation check, 8 mutants, all killed: the pre-#887 inverted table; the
driver dropping OpcUaSeverity; no not-an-alarm rule; each of the three band
edges off by one; history ignoring priority; a missing AVEVA severity read
as 0.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GT67ACmpMR7b9LGRPLijMi
2026-11-12 12:14:49 -05:00
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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

v2 (2026-05-26): the separate OtOpcUa.Server + OtOpcUa.Admin services fused into a single role-gated OtOpcUa.Host binary, joined by an Akka.NET cluster. See v2 design for the architectural decision.

  • Core owns shared abstractions (driver capability contracts, scripting, virtual tags, alarm historian).
  • Drivers plug in via capability interfaces in ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Core.Abstractions: IDriver, IReadable, IWritable, ITagDiscovery, ISubscribable, IHostConnectivityProbe, IAlarmSource, IPerCallHostResolver. Each driver opts into whichever it supports.
  • Host (src/Server/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Host) is the single fused binary (.NET 10, AnyCPU). OTOPCUA_ROLES env decides what to mount: admin (Blazor + control-plane singletons), driver (OPC UA endpoint + per-node actors), or both. See ServiceHosting.md.
  • Cluster + ControlPlane + Runtime + AdminUI + Security sit between Core and Host. The cluster glues per-node actors into one logical fleet; the control-plane singletons (deploy coordinator, audit writer, redundancy state) live on the admin role-leader. See Redundancy.md.
  • The Galaxy driver still reaches MXAccess via gRPC to a separately-installed mxaccessgw sidecar (sibling repo).

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
DriverLifecycle.md Server-side driver lifecycle + infrastructure contracts (IDriverFactory, IDriverProbe, IDriverHealthPublisher, IDriverConfigEditor, IHistorianDataSource) + the Commons library
Subscriptions.md Monitored items → ISubscribable + per-driver subscription refcount (v1 archive)
AlarmTracking.md IAlarmSource + AlarmSurfaceInvoker + OPC UA alarm conditions — native Galaxy alarms end-to-end (live)
AlarmTracking.md Original alarm-tracking write-up (v1 archive)
AlarmHistorian.md Core.AlarmHistorian store-and-forward sink — LocalDbStoreAndForwardSink, the replicated alarm_sf_events buffer + Primary-only drain, IAlarmHistorianWriter, dead-letter/retry/eviction
DataTypeMapping.md Per-driver DriverAttributeInfo → OPC UA variable types (v1 archive — live mapping is in src/Drivers/ZB.MOM.WW.OtOpcUa.Driver.Galaxy/Browse/DataTypeMap.cs)
IncrementalSync.md Address-space rebuild on redeploy + sp_ComputeGenerationDiff
HistoricalDataAccess.md Historical v1 design: history as a per-driver capability (retired; history is now server-side, see Historian.md)
VirtualTags.md Core.Scripting + Core.VirtualTags — Roslyn script sandbox, engine, dispatch alongside driver tags
ScriptEditor.md Monaco script editor — Roslyn-backed IntelliSense (completions, diagnostics, hover, tag-path) for C# virtual-tag scripts; AdminUI/ScriptAnalysis/ backend
ScriptedAlarms.md Core.ScriptedAlarms — script-predicate IAlarmSource + Part 9 state machine

One Core subsystem is shipped without a dedicated top-level doc; see the section in the linked doc:

Project See
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 Live appsettings + environment-variable reference (current state)
Configuration.md appsettings bootstrap + Config DB + Admin UI draft/publish (v1 archive — OTOPCUA_GALAXY_* env vars now live in mxaccessgw config)
Uns.md The global /uns master tree — manage Area/Line/Equipment/Tag/VirtualTag fleet-wide; replaces the per-cluster UNS/Equipment/Tags tabs
security.md Transport security profiles, LDAP auth, ACL trie, role grants, OTOPCUA0001 analyzer
Redundancy.md RedundancyStateActor (cluster-scoped singleton), ServiceLevelCalculator, IRedundancyRoleView, per-cluster meshes, Prometheus metrics
Reservations.md Fleet-wide ZTag / SAPID external-ID reservations — publish-time claim, release flow
ServiceHosting.md Single fused OtOpcUa.Host binary install/uninstall with OTOPCUA_ROLES gating; the historian backend is the external HistorianGateway
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:

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.