Tried every documented subscription knob with InitializeConsumer
present + provider visible at status 100:
- qtSummary AND qtHistory (the only eQueryType values).
- Priority 1..999 AND 0..32767.
- FilterMask/Spec asNone AND asAlarmActiveNow.
eAlarmFilterState is single-state-valued (asNone=0,
asAlarmActiveNow=1, asAlarmAcked=2, asShelved=3), not flag bits,
so the filter surface is exhausted.
GetStatistics continued to report total=0 active=0 codes=[7]
for every poll across all combinations.
User confirmation: the BoolAlarm extension on
TestMachine_001.TestAlarm001 is evaluating (the $Alarm.InAlarm
sub-attribute flips true/false in lockstep with the script
writes, visible in aaObjectViewer). So the consumer chain is
verified working end-to-end on our side. What's missing is
producer-side publication into the aaAlarmManagedClient stream.
Probable causes (config, not code):
- BoolAlarm extension's "publish to alarm manager" / "Active" /
"Enabled" flag may be off.
- Alarm-vs-event mode setting may have it routing to events,
not alarms.
- Platform alarm area may not match the consumer's subscription
scope.
Resolution path: check the BoolAlarm extension's config in System
Platform IDE; check aaObjectViewer's Active Alarms panel (not
attribute panel) to see if the alarm appears there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
InitializeConsumer was the missing call. Adding it before
RegisterConsumer makes the \Galaxy! provider appear in
GetProviders (status 0 -> 100 within 500ms). Without Initialize,
GetProviders returns an empty list even though everything else
returns rc=0 (success).
Probe trace 2026-05-01:
InitializeConsumer -> 0
RegisterConsumer -> 0
GetProviders [after Register] -> count=0 list=[]
Subscribe('\Galaxy!') -> 0
GetProviders [after Subscribe] -> count=1 list=[ 0 \Galaxy!]
GetProviders [poll #1] -> count=1 list=[100 \Galaxy!]
Despite the provider being at "100% query complete" for the
entire 60s window, GetStatistics continued to report
total=0 active=0 codes=[7] -- no alarm transitions reached the
consumer even with a System Platform script flipping
TestMachine_001.TestAlarm001 every 10s during the run.
So the consumer chain works end-to-end. What's missing is alarm
traffic from the producer side. The next discriminator is
whether ObjectViewer (or another live consumer) sees the alarm
fire while the script runs.
API-ordering bug fix to apply to PR A.5's AlarmClientConsumer
regardless of how A.2 lands: AlarmClientConsumer.Subscribe
should call InitializeConsumer before RegisterConsumer (currently
omits Initialize entirely, which means the provider chain is
never visible from the worker either). That fix lifts a
fundamental bug independent of the polling-vs-callback question.
Probe changes:
- Added InitializeConsumer call before RegisterConsumer.
- Added LogProviders helper that logs only on change; called
after Register, after Subscribe, and on every poll. Easier
to spot when the provider chain transitions from empty to
populated.
- Restored Skip-gating after run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extended AlarmClientWmProbeTests to call AlarmClient.GetProviders
after RegisterConsumer. Run 2026-05-01:
GetProviders -> rc=0 count=0 list=[]
Zero alarm providers visible to the consumer. This explains every
preceding probe run — no providers means no alarm events,
regardless of subscription expression or value writes upstream.
Even with a System Platform script flipping
TestMachine_001.TestAlarm001 every 10s during the run,
GetStatistics reported no transitions, no positions[] entries,
no field changes after t=0.85s.
Possible causes (dev-rig configuration, not code):
1. No $Alarm extension on the test bool — flipping the value
writes a value but doesn't fire an alarm.
2. AVEVA alarm-manager service (aaAlarmMgr or equivalent) not
running on this rig.
3. Process security context — providers registered under a
service account aren't visible to a consumer running under
a normal user account.
A.2 implementation is blocked on this until at least one provider
is visible. Once a provider exists, the polling-vs-callback
question is answerable in one probe run; without a provider both
paths return the same "nothing happening" answer.
Probe changes:
- Added in-process MxAccess Write attempt (TriggerWriteValue) —
hit TargetParameterCountException so the Write signature is
not (handle, item, value); reflection diag added but not
resolved. Now disabled in favor of external trigger.
- Added GetProviders enumeration after RegisterConsumer.
- Removed firePrint/clearPrint markers; probe is observe-only.
- Added ArchestrA.MxAccess reference to the test project.
Also updated docs/AlarmClientDiscovery.md with the
alarm-provider-visibility section explaining what's blocked
and why.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extended AlarmClientWmProbeTests.ProbeAlarmClientWmMessages to also
call GetStatistics every ~2s during the pump window. Re-ran on the
dev rig 2026-05-01:
- GetStatistics is safely callable from the same thread that did
RegisterConsumer + Subscribe. Every poll (9 calls / 20s window)
returned rc=0, no exceptions.
- Galaxy currently has zero active alarms. total=0 active=0
suppressed=0 newAlarms=0 across every poll. positions[] and
handles[] arrays were empty.
- changes=1 codes=[7] was constant across all polls, matching the
constant 1 Hz WM 0xC275 cadence — same heartbeat semantics
exposed through both the WM path and the pull API.
Confirms the polling design is mechanically viable: GetStatistics
threading-affinity is fine and the call is cheap. The remaining
unknown is whether GetStatistics populates positions[] / handles[]
with real entries when an alarm actually fires. Proving that
requires triggering an alarm — next probe is an MxAccess write to a
$Alarm-extended boolean tag (reference pending).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Added MxGateway.Worker.Tests/AlarmClientWmProbeTests.cs as a Skip-gated
runtime probe. Run on the dev rig 2026-05-01 against the live AVEVA
install (Galaxy reachable, no manual alarm fired). Findings:
- RegisterConsumer(hWnd, ...) and Subscribe("\Galaxy!", ...) both
return 0 (success). Calls are valid against the deployed assembly.
- A registered-message-class WM (ID 0xC275 in this OS session) fires
every ~1 second after Subscribe completes. Constant wParam=0x1100,
constant lParam=0x079E46D8 — looks like a heartbeat / keepalive,
not a per-change notification.
- Critically, this WM is delivered to AVEVA's own internal window
(hwnd=0x18032E), NOT to the consumer hWnd we registered. The
consumer window receives only the standard WM_CREATE / WM_DESTROY
sequence; no AVEVA traffic in between.
This invalidates the WM_APP-pump design previously documented. The
hWnd parameter to RegisterConsumer appears to be a registration
identity only — AVEVA's notification path runs entirely against
AVEVA's own internal window.
Two viable A.2 designs replace the previous one:
1. Polling. Call GetStatistics on a 500ms timer in the worker's STA
and react to whatever change set it reports. No window plumbing
needed. Latency floor = poll period. Matches AVEVA's own
internal heartbeat cadence.
2. Hook AVEVA's internal window. Discover AVEVA's own hwnd,
SetWindowSubclass on it, intercept WM 0xC275 on AVEVA's thread.
Higher fidelity, lower latency, but invasive and fragile across
AVEVA upgrades — likely a non-starter.
Recommendation in docs/AlarmClientDiscovery.md is option 1 (polling)
unless a follow-up probe with a real fired alarm shows AVEVA does
post change-specific WMs to a different hWnd.
Open follow-up probes documented:
- Fire a real Galaxy alarm during pump and check whether WM 0xC275
cadence changes or GetStatistics returns non-empty arrays.
- GetStatistics threading affinity test.
- Hook AVEVA's internal window 0x18032E.
- Decompile aaAlarmManagedClient IL for RegisterConsumer to find
whether WNAL_Register's callback surface is wrapped.
Test project changes:
- Added Reference to aaAlarmManagedClient + IAlarmMgrDataProvider
(Private=true so the DLL gets copied into bin for test load).
- Test-suite-wide: 127 real tests still pass; both alarm-related
Skip-gated tests skip cleanly.
Code change to the probe is additive — the worker is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reflection probe of the deployed aaAlarmManagedClient.dll
(v1.0.7368.41290) on 2026-05-01 confirmed the public AlarmClient class
exposes zero public events. The PR A.5 design that AlarmClientConsumer
is built on (managed-event surface, no message pump) does not hold
against this assembly.
The actual notification mechanism is WM_APP messaging:
RegisterConsumer(hWnd, ...) takes a window handle because AVEVA's alarm
provider WM_APP-pokes the registered window, then GetStatistics +
GetAlarmExtendedRec pull the change set on each poke.
Practical impact:
- AlarmClientConsumer.AlarmRecordReceived has no production caller.
RaiseAlarmRecordReceived is invoked only from tests. Subscribe(...)
returns OK from RegisterConsumer + Subscribe but no notifications
reach the consumer at runtime because no window is attached.
- Until A.2 lands a hidden message-only window + WindowProc that routes
WM_APP into MxAccessAlarmEventSink.EnqueueTransition, the gateway's
MX_EVENT_FAMILY_ON_ALARM_TRANSITION family cannot carry events.
- AcknowledgeByGuid and SnapshotActiveAlarms are pull-style and remain
correct as written.
Changes:
- docs/AlarmClientDiscovery.md (new) — reflection probe summary, full
AlarmClient method list, open questions for A.2 implementation.
- AlarmClientConsumer.cs xmldoc — replaced the inaccurate "managed
event surface" claim with the WM_APP finding; flagged
AlarmRecordReceived as unreachable in production until the WM_APP
pump lands.
- MxAccessAlarmEventSink.cs xmldoc — replaced the "verify on dev rig"
hedge in the wiring plan with the resolved finding; expanded the
open-questions list (WM_APP message ID, wParam/lParam semantics, STA
affinity, subscription scope) so the next A.2 PR knows what the
dev-rig probe needs to answer.
Code-only no-op for the worker; worker builds clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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