wwtools/mbproxy/install/mbproxy.config.template.json

// mbproxy configuration template — copy to %ProgramData%\mbproxy\appsettings.json
// and edit before starting the service.
//
// The .NET configuration loader accepts // and /* */ comments in JSON files
// (JSONC semantics) when using the default Host.CreateApplicationBuilder path.
//
// IMPORTANT: This file is overwritten on each install ONLY if no appsettings.json
// already exists at the destination. An existing file is always preserved.
{
  "Mbproxy": {

    // ── Global BCD tag list ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    // These tags apply to EVERY PLC by default.
    // Each entry: Address (Modbus PDU address, decimal), Width (16 or 32 bits).
    //
    // Width 16 — one register holds 4 BCD digits (0–9999).
    //   Wire value 0x1234 decodes to decimal 1234.
    //
    // Width 32 — a CDAB-ordered register pair (Address = low word, Address+1 = high word).
    //   Decoded decimal = high * 10000 + low (DirectLOGIC CDAB word order).
    //
    // Per-PLC overrides (see Plcs[].BcdTags below):
    //   Add    — appends extra tags beyond what Global defines, or overrides a
    //             Global entry's Width when the same Address appears in both.
    //   Remove — removes specific addresses from the effective set for that PLC.
    //   Effective set = (Global ∪ Add) − Remove, resolved per PDU.
    "BcdTags": {
      "Global": [
        // V2000 (octal) = decimal address 1024. 16-bit BCD counter.
        { "Address": 1024, "Width": 16 },

        // V2040 (octal) = decimal address 1056. 32-bit BCD total at 1056/1057.
        { "Address": 1056, "Width": 32 },

        // V2100 (octal) = decimal address 1088. 16-bit BCD setpoint.
        //
        // Phase 11: CacheTtlMs (optional) opts this tag into the response cache. With
        // CacheTtlMs > 0 set, upstream clients reading this register will see values up
        // to CacheTtlMs MILLISECONDS OLD — explicit acknowledgement of the staleness
        // window is required by enabling it.  Default (omitted or 0) = cache disabled
        // for this tag. The cache is OFF by default for every tag.
        { "Address": 1088, "Width": 16 /* , "CacheTtlMs": 1000  */ }
      ]
    },

    // ── PLC list ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    // Each entry maps one upstream proxy port → one backend PLC.
    // Upstream clients connect to ListenPort; the proxy forwards to Host:Port.
    //
    // IMPORTANT: H2-ECOM100 modules accept at most 4 simultaneous TCP connections.
    // With the 1:1 upstream↔backend model, a fifth upstream client to the same proxy
    // port will cause a backend connect failure and an immediate upstream disconnect.
    "Plcs": [
      {
        "Name": "Line1-Mixer",           // Human-readable name (shown on status page and in logs)
        "ListenPort": 5020,              // Port the proxy listens on (upstream clients connect here)
        "Host": "10.0.1.1",             // PLC IP address or hostname
        "Port": 502,                     // PLC Modbus TCP port (almost always 502)
        "BcdTags": {
          // Additional 32-bit tag specific to this PLC only.
          "Add": [
            { "Address": 1200, "Width": 32 }
          ],
          // Remove address 1056 from the Global list for this PLC
          // (this mixer doesn't use the 32-bit BCD total).
          "Remove": [ 1056 ]
        }
      },
      {
        "Name": "Line1-Conveyor",
        "ListenPort": 5021,
        "Host": "10.0.1.2",
        "Port": 502
        // No BcdTags override — uses the Global set as-is.
      }
      // Add one entry per PLC. Ports must be unique per host. Typical fleet: 54 PLCs.
    ],

    // ── Admin port ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    // Read-only HTTP status page.
    //   GET /           → self-contained HTML (auto-refreshes every 5 s)
    //   GET /status.json → same data as JSON for monitoring scrapers
    //
    // Authentication is assumed at the network layer (trusted internal segment).
    // Set to 0 to disable the admin endpoint.
    "AdminPort": 8080,

    // ── Connection timeouts ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    "Connection": {
      // Max time (ms) to wait for a TCP connect to the PLC backend.
      // Each Polly retry attempt gets its own copy of this timeout.
      "BackendConnectTimeoutMs": 3000,

      // Max time (ms) to wait for the PLC to respond to a forwarded PDU.
      // Non-idempotent FC06/FC16 writes are one-shot — the upstream client
      // is disconnected immediately on timeout (no retry).
      "BackendRequestTimeoutMs": 3000,

      // Max time (ms) to wait for in-flight PDUs to complete during graceful shutdown
      // (sc.exe stop / Windows Service stop signal). After this deadline the coordinator
      // cancels remaining work and proceeds. Keep at or below the SCM wait-hint (30 s).
      "GracefulShutdownTimeoutMs": 10000
    },

    // ── Resilience policies ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
    "Resilience": {

      // Polly retry policy for backend TCP connect attempts.
      // MaxAttempts: total connect tries (including the first).
      // BackoffMs: delay between each attempt (must have MaxAttempts−1 entries).
      "BackendConnect": {
        "MaxAttempts": 3,
        "BackoffMs": [ 100, 500, 2000 ]
      },

      // Polly recovery policy for listener bind failures.
      // If a PLC's listen port can't be bound (in-use, bad IP, transient OS error),
      // the supervisor retries according to this schedule.
      // InitialBackoffMs: backoff per step (first N retries).
      // SteadyStateMs: backoff for all subsequent retries (runs indefinitely).
      "ListenerRecovery": {
        "InitialBackoffMs": [ 1000, 2000, 5000, 15000, 30000 ],
        "SteadyStateMs": 30000
      },

      // Phase 10 — in-flight read coalescing.
      //
      // When two or more upstream clients (HMI / historian / engineering workstation /
      // gateway) issue the SAME FC03 or FC04 read while a matching backend round-trip is
      // already in flight, the proxy attaches the late arrivals to the existing in-flight
      // entry and fans the single PLC response out to every attached client — saving the
      // ECOM's per-scan PDU budget on duplicated reads.
      //
      // Zero post-response staleness: coalescing operates ONLY between "first request
      // sent to PLC" and "response received from PLC" (microseconds to ~10 ms typical).
      // Each upstream client still sees its own MBAP transaction ID echoed correctly;
      // the proxy is transparent.
      //
      // FC06 / FC16 writes are NEVER coalesced (non-idempotent). FC03 vs FC04 are
      // separate Modbus tables and never share a coalescing key. Different unit IDs
      // (multi-drop / gateway-backed setups) never coalesce.
      //
      //   Enabled    — master switch. Hot-reloadable; flipping to false leaves running
      //                coalesced entries to drain naturally.
      //   MaxParties — per-entry cap on attached parties. Past the cap, the next
      //                identical request opens a fresh backend round-trip (load-shedding
      //                safety valve for very fan-out-heavy fleets).
      "ReadCoalescing": {
        "Enabled": true,
        "MaxParties": 32
      }
    },

    // ── Response cache (Phase 11) — opt-in bounded-staleness cache ──────────────────
    //
    // ⚠ DESIGN-CONTRACT PIVOT: with caching enabled the proxy is no longer purely
    // transparent. Upstream FC03/FC04 reads for cache-enabled tags may return values
    // up to CacheTtlMs MILLISECONDS OLD. Operators opt tags in by setting a non-zero
    // CacheTtlMs on a BcdTagOptions entry (or DefaultCacheTtlMs on a PlcOptions entry).
    //
    // The cache is OFF BY DEFAULT for every tag. A deployment with NO TTL config (this
    // section entirely absent and no BcdTags.*.CacheTtlMs / Plcs[i].DefaultCacheTtlMs)
    // behaves IDENTICALLY to a pre-Phase-11 deployment — no behaviour change.
    //
    //   AllowLongTtl        — gate for any CacheTtlMs > 60_000.  Reload validation
    //                          rejects configs that exceed 60 s without this opt-in,
    //                          to prevent accidentally-stale-for-an-hour deployments.
    //   MaxEntriesPerPlc    — LRU cap per-PLC.  Past this cap, the next insert evicts
    //                          the least-recently-used entry.  Defaults to 1000.
    //   EvictionIntervalMs  — background eviction tick.  Scans each PLC's cache and
    //                          removes entries past their TTL.  Defaults to 5000.
    //
    // Properties (full text in docs/design.md → "Response cache"):
    //   * Cache hits SHORT-CIRCUIT coalescing entirely (cache → coalesce → backend).
    //   * Successful FC06/FC16 write responses invalidate every cached FC03/FC04 entry
    //     whose address range OVERLAPS the write — not just exact-key match.
    //   * Multi-tag read range:  effective TTL = min(TTLs).  Any tag with TTL=0 in the
    //     range disables caching for the whole read.
    //   * Cache stores POST-rewriter bytes; hits never re-invoke the BCD rewriter.
    //   * Tag-list hot-reload flushes the affected PLC's whole cache.
    //   * No persistence — process restart wipes the cache.
    "Cache": {
      "AllowLongTtl":       false,
      "MaxEntriesPerPlc":   1000,
      "EvictionIntervalMs": 5000
    }
  },

  // ── Serilog ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  // Structured log output. Default: Information level, rolling-file under ProgramData.
  // The EventLogBridge writes Error+ events to the Windows Application Event Log
  // automatically when the service runs under the SCM (not under dotnet run).
  "Serilog": {
    "Using": [ "Serilog.Sinks.Console", "Serilog.Sinks.File" ],
    "MinimumLevel": {
      "Default": "Information",
      "Override": {
        "Microsoft": "Warning",
        "System": "Warning"
      }
    },
    "WriteTo": [
      {
        "Name": "Console",
        "Args": {
          "outputTemplate": "[{Timestamp:HH:mm:ss} {Level:u3}] {Message:lj} {Properties:j}{NewLine}{Exception}"
        }
      },
      {
        "Name": "File",
        "Args": {
          // Rolling log: one file per day, kept for 30 days.
          // Survives uninstall — logs are archived to %ProgramData%\mbproxy.archived-<ts>\.
          "path": "C:\\ProgramData\\mbproxy\\logs\\mbproxy-.log",
          "rollingInterval": "Day",
          "retainedFileCountLimit": 30,
          "outputTemplate": "[{Timestamp:yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff zzz} {Level:u3}] {Message:lj} {Properties:j}{NewLine}{Exception}"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}