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Joseph Doherty ef2eebe6b6 fix(scripting): review minors: configured limit in summaries, dispose gate/CTS, validator, docs (fix round 1)
- ScriptLogRateLimiter.LimitPerWindow. The ScriptLogTopicSink and
  VirtualTagActor summaries now print the configured limit, not
  DefaultLimitPerWindow. Tests assert "limit N/window" for a non-default
  N.
- CalculationDriver.Dispose cancels, then takes _evalGate (bounded 2 s)
  and disposes the gate and _evalCts. The pump and timer ticks enter the
  gate through TryEnterEvalGateAsync, which stops cleanly once the
  driver is disposed. Test: Dispose with a 6 s runaway run in flight
  returns promptly, disposes both, and a late trigger is harmless.
- ScriptedAlarmEngine captures _shutdownToken once and disposes
  _shutdownCts in Dispose when every drained task has completed. A task
  stuck past the grace leaves the CTS to the GC. Lifecycle tests assert
  the disposal.
- DraftValidator: CalculationNoEffectiveTrigger is skipped for a
  change-triggered tag whose scriptId does not resolve. That case is
  already CalculationScriptMissing or CalculationScriptNotFound, and
  there are no reads to count. Both existing tests now assert the
  absence (red before the change).
- docs/VirtualTags.md: System.Threading is denied as a whole namespace,
  with an allow-list; the type list is now accurate (Unsafe,
  RuntimeHelpers, and the ForbiddenMembers on System.Type); the resource
  limits section covers the run guard and the allocation budget.
  docs/ScriptEditor.md: accurate deny-list and a new "Runtime safety"
  section covering timeout, refusal, quarantine after 3 timeouts,
  allocation budget, lifting, and rate-limit summaries that appear only
  on the source's next entry after a burst then quiet.

Refs #734

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ub9hGmYLQvn9XETzw7CMsT
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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.