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cproudlock
30d0d4f6d5 Stop asking for more rows than the server will ever return
You are right that this is the one we keep hitting. perpage is capped at 100
server-side, and the cap is applied SILENTLY: a request for 500 returns the
first 100 rows with a 200, so a picker built that way shows the first 100
options and drops the rest with nothing anywhere reporting a problem. The
missing vendor simply is not in the list.

Twelve call sites were still doing it - vendor and business-unit pickers on the
machine and measuring-tool forms, and the type lists behind PCs, machines,
printers, network devices, measuring tools and configuration policies. Each now
either pages through with listAll()/fetchAllPages() or asks for what it can
actually have. vendorsApi and businessunitsApi gained listAll(), which they
lacked, which is why those two sites reached for 500 in the first place.

The gate is the point. tests/test_core/test_perpage_cap.py reads every .vue and
.js source under frontend/src and plugins/*/frontend and fails on any perpage
over 100. It has to read the SOURCE rather than the running app, because the
response is a valid 200 either way - no runtime assertion can see this one.
Verified by planting a perpage: 500 back into MachineForm: the gate names that
exact line.

Separately, /api/auditlogs built its own meta with the pagination fields flat
and a 'pages' key, while every other list returns
meta.pagination.{page,perpage,total,totalpages,hasnext,hasprev}. A client
written against the documented contract found nothing where it looked, on the
one list whose whole purpose is being read by somebody checking what happened.
It uses paginated_response now.

Also carried here, from the previous batch's working tree: Asset.to_dict emits
ownlocationid/ownmapx/ownmapy/ownlevelid alongside the resolved values, and the
PC form binds to those. The merge of an inherited location is right for a reader
and wrong for a form, which could not tell an owned value from a derived one and
wrote the inherited one back as the record's own.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 16:49:55 -04:00
cproudlock
cbdfcbabb7 One badge vocabulary, and images a browser can actually load
Two operator-visible defects and three doc corrections, closing the tail of the
2026-09-03 run.

THE BADGE. The two kiosks read the same physical badges and disagreed. The
parts kiosk understood both shapes a scanner emits - the bare SSO and the PayNo
wrapper 0<digits>BZ - while the USB kiosk compared the raw string to an SSO, so
the wrapper resolved to nobody. An operator whose keyboard-wedge scanner emits
it could take a 3D-printed part and could not check out a drive, with the same
badge, at two cabinets a few metres apart.

The shape now lives in shopdb/utils/badges.py on the contract surface, because
a plugin may not import another plugin and because a badge is a property of the
site rather than of a cabinet. Both kiosks use it, and both store the DIGITS
rather than the string that arrived: one row per spelling makes a custody
history that cannot be joined to itself.

That closed a subtler hole in the same place. str.isdigit() is true for
Arabic-Indic and other decimal forms, and int() parses them, so a badge written
in those characters was accepted, matched a REAL employee, and was then stored
as an SSO string nothing else matches. ASCII digits only. An empty scan and an
unreadable one now get different answers, because they are different problems
for the person at the cabinet.

THE IMAGES. /api/applications/image/<filename> and /api/models/image/<filename>
required a permission, and a browser fetching <img src="..."> sends no
Authorization header - so the gate did not protect the file, it guaranteed the
picture never appeared. Both are ungated now, like the four sibling image routes
(branding logo, map blueprint, employee photo, part picture), and registered in
PUBLIC_ENDPOINTS with that reasoning.

/api/printers/lookup?fqdn= never matched anything: both arguments were compared
against Communication.ipaddress, so a hostname lookup 404d on printers whose
hostname was on the record. An FQDN now matches the hostname, with a fallback to
the short name.

The slide manager gained the per-slide hold time. The PATCH route and the feed
have always carried `seconds`; nothing called it, so the one documented
per-slide control was curl-only.

Docs: API-REFERENCE listed the employee lookups and the whole notifications
surface as unauthenticated when they answer 401, and called both kiosks
"deliberately open" when they are off by default and refuse anything without the
site's device token. The installer download says applications.download, which is
what the code requires. api-inventory.json said printers/lookup was
jwt-optional.

Fourteen tests. The badge rule verified by planting the old per-kiosk behaviour:
three fail, one in each kiosk.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 16:25:08 -04:00
cproudlock
fb63ef9d30 Make a retired asset findable and restorable from the product
The retire dialog says "History and relationships are kept, and it can be
restored." The API always kept that promise - ?active=false lists retired rows,
PUT {"isactive": true} restores one - and no screen in the product could reach
either. A retired asset simply vanished: the lists filtered it out, global
search missed it, and its detail page still rendered Edit and Retire with
nothing anywhere saying it was retired.

Five list pages gained a "Show retired" toggle that passes active=false, and a
retired row now carries a badge. Five detail pages gained a banner saying the
record is retired and what that means, a Restore button, and the suppression of
Edit and Retire while it is retired - offering Retire on an already-retired
record was the part that made the state invisible.

Verified end to end in a browser: retire a machine, the detail page says so and
offers Restore, the list hides it until the toggle is ticked and badges it when
shown, and Restore puts it back (isactive true again on the API).

One thing this does NOT do: global search still does not reach a retired asset.
That is a separate surface with its own filter, and worth deciding on
deliberately rather than sliding in here - a search that returns retired
records by default would change every result page.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 15:33:21 -04:00
cproudlock
61a1c0b4fb Answer API errors in the envelope, say when supplies are unread, badge each chain
Three more findings from the 2026-09-03 run.

Werkzeug answered 405, 415 and a malformed JSON body itself, in HTML. A client
written against the documented {status,data,meta} contract got a page of markup
with no error code, which is indistinguishable from the server having fallen
over. The 405 had a second edge: on a route the caller cannot otherwise see, a
method-not-allowed CONFIRMS the path exists, so a gated kiosk route meant to
read as absent announced itself by refusing the wrong verb. All three now
answer in the envelope, and only under /api/ - everything else is the SPA and
keeps the framework's behaviour, deep links included.

The Toner Report rendered "0 Printers Checked / 0 Low / 0 Critical" and "No
printers match the selected filter" while the API it had just called said
supply monitoring was unreachable. Zeros read as a clean bill of health for a
fleet nobody has looked at. The page now carries the reason the API gave and
suppresses the counts, because a number nobody measured is not a result. Same
defect shape as the supplies card fixed on 2026-08-29; `unavailable` was
already in the payload and the page ignored it.

Backup revisions badged "current" per (asset, kind). NTLARS settings describe a
MACHINE but are read off the controlling PC, so a machine with two reporting
PCs has two independent chains of the same kind - and only the higher revision
id was badged, so the second PC's newest revision showed as history and lost
its last-verified stamp. The machine looked like one source re-reporting rather
than two. sourcehostname is the chain; a revision without one forms its own,
which keeps the old behaviour for everything that has only ever had one source.

Nine tests. The envelope ones verified by planting: remove the three handlers
and three fail.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 15:21:58 -04:00
cproudlock
2fb924f18e Let a printer driver carry the name Windows actually matches on
The driver form and the API both dropped `drivername` and `vendorid`. POST
returned 201 with both null, PUT accepted them and stored nothing, and no
screen offered either field - so there was no interface in the product that
could set them.

That is not a cosmetic gap. `drivername` is the exact string the INF declares,
and Add-PrinterDriver matches on it; `name` is ours to choose and means nothing
to Windows. With it null the shipped converger has nothing to match and
installs nothing, and the drift check that compares an observed driver name
against the expected one could never fire, because the expected value was never
stored. `vendorid` is how a universal driver (HP UPD, Xerox GPD) attaches to a
whole make instead of needing a near-duplicate row per model.

Both are now read on create and update, and the driver form gained the two
fields with hints saying what they are for - the INF name box says plainly that
leaving it blank means the converger cannot install that driver. A whitespace
value clears rather than stores: an empty box means "not known", and a blank
string would look set and match nothing.

Three tests. Verified by planting: drop the two fields from the create path
again and the round-trip test fails.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 15:16:33 -04:00
cproudlock
45acaf0b8f Resolve an asset type by name, and send a map position with its level
Wave 5, the asset forms. Both defects are the same mistake in different
clothes: a form deciding something it should have been told.

Four forms carried a hardcoded asset-type id - const COMPUTER_ASSETTYPEID = 2,
and the same for machines, printers and network devices - to tell
CustomFieldsInputs which type's fields to render. Those ids come from seed
order. On the instance they were written against, computer was 2; on a freshly
seeded database computer is 1 and 2 is network_device. So the PC form asked for
another type's custom fields, rendered them, and dropped everything typed into
them behind a success toast, because the values were keyed to a type the record
does not have. Verified in a browser against a correctly built dist: the form
now requests assettypeid=1 on an instance where computer is 1.

The name is the stable thing - assettype is a fixed vocabulary and the API
already publishes the mapping - so composables/assetTypeIds.js resolves it once
per page load. A failed load leaves it undefined, which renders no custom-field
panel: a missing panel is honest, a guessed id is what this replaces.

Three of the five forms that emit a map position sent mapx and mapy without
levelid. ADR-017 is explicit that a position without its level cannot be drawn
on the right floor plan, so a picked pin saved a null level and rendered
nowhere - while the form displayed "Position: x, y" back, because it kept the
value it had never sent.

The ADR-017 gate should have caught that and did not: it globbed '*.py' only,
so it policed what the server emits and never what the browser sends. It now
covers .vue and .js too, and accepts both quoting styles. Verified by planting:
drop levelid from PCForm again and the gate names that exact line.

Five composable tests, including a fixture with a DIFFERENT seed order - the
case the constants got wrong.

Still open from this area, and deliberately not in this commit: the PC form
writes an INHERITED location back as the record's own. Fixing it needs the API
to distinguish an owned locationid from a derived one, which is a contract
change rather than a form fix.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 14:42:24 -04:00
cproudlock
debef39a18 Answer a nonsense filter with a 400, and sweep every list route for the rest
Wave 3. Six findings, one cause: `int(request.args.get('typeid'))` with nothing
catching the ValueError. The caller sent a bad argument and got
500 INTERNAL_ERROR plus a traceback in the log, which says the server is broken
when the truth is that 'abc' is not a number.

shopdb/utils/queryargs.intarg reads it and raises QueryArgError, which an
app-level handler answers as a 400 naming the argument. App-level on purpose: a
route should not have to remember, and forgetting was the entire defect. The
policy differs from get_pagination_params, which falls back to a default for a
bad page number - a nonsense page is harmless and the caller still wants their
list, but silently ignoring a nonsense FILTER returns rows they believe they
excluded.

The gate matters more than the six fixes. tests/test_core/test_bad_query_args.py
sweeps all 131 registered no-parameter GET routes under /api/ with twelve
argument shapes and fails on any 5xx. It found sites the test run had not
reported - statusid and locationid on /api/assets, the second asset-list route,
limit on the employee lookup and the printer supply history - because the
pattern is how a list filter gets written rather than a property of any one
route. Verified non-vacuous by planting the old `int(...)` back into
/api/machines: four tests fail.

Four usb routes are skipped by exact path, with the reason: they reach the
EXTERNAL cmmc_usb database, so their 500 in a test environment is a missing
database rather than an argument fault. That is the complete set - every usb
GET route calling cmmc_usb_connection - not a convenient subset.

One correction worth recording: the first pass rewrote every
`if x := request.args.get(...)` in the touched files, including text arguments,
so a search for 'ZZNOTHINGMATCHES' briefly became a 400. Caught by
test_list_search_identifiers. Only id-shaped arguments are integers.

Scope: product
2026-09-03 14:18:49 -04:00
cproudlock
7f6aaf2e64 Gate the USB kiosk the same way, and make an unreachable setting a test failure
The USB kiosk had a feature flag and nothing else. A flag is a decision, not a
credential: with the kiosk on, anyone who could reach the app could move a drive
between checked-out and checked-in and sign it with a badge they guessed. Same
reasoning that closed the parts kiosk, smaller blast radius - which is why
Darkwing did not raise it and why it was worth asking about anyway.

Both kiosks now share one mechanism. The device token moved out of the
printedparts api wrapper into a request interceptor that attaches X-Kiosk-Token
by URL prefix, with one localStorage key per kiosk - they are separate screens
in separate rooms, and a shared token would mean provisioning one grants the
other. claimKioskToken() is shared too, so both views take the token from a
?token= URL once and strip it from the address bar identically.

Then the part that matters more than either fix. I told you to set the new
settings in the UI, and that was impossible: every plugin settings page carries
a hardcoded key list, and nothing had added them. printedparts_kiosk_enabled,
printedparts_kiosk_token and usb_kiosk_token were declared, seeded and read
correctly, and rendered by no page - changeable only by writing SQL.

tests/test_plugin_settings_reachable.py now fails when any declared setting
appears nowhere in its plugin's frontend. It found seven MORE that were already
in that state, all pre-existing:

  collector_corporate_ranges          computers_configpolicies_enabled
  computers_machinelink_alerts        computers_quietreporthours
  geenforce_reportstaleminutes        printers_dashboardpercent
  warranty_expiringdays

All seven now have fields. I first parked them in a KNOWN_GAPS ratchet, then
fixed them and deleted the ratchet - a backlog list in a new check is a way of
agreeing the check does not apply yet. There is no backlog; the check is
absolute.

Two of my own mistakes on the way, both caught by tests rather than by reading:
the blanket rename of the USB guard also rewrote the call inside _kiosk_open, so
it called itself until the stack ran out; and the first version of the reachable
check skipped all 17 plugins because it looked for get_settings() when the
method is get_settings_defaults() - it passed by testing nothing, which is the
exact shape it exists to catch.

Suite 2336, frontend 316, build clean.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 18:08:34 -04:00
cproudlock
f3a291a28d Stop a request-supplied host reaching the generated installer script
Found by the Darkwing scan of main (run 33654922078). Its own review dismissed
the finding as not remotely exploitable and it is right about that: nothing can
make a victim's browser attach a custom header, and deploy/windows/web.config
does no output caching. It still recommended the hardening, and the reasoning
for the dismissal is a property of OUR IIS config, not of the product - every
site runs its own instance behind its own proxy under ADR-004.

_batch_base_url() interpolated a caller-supplied host into the single-quoted
PowerShell -Uri literal of the .bat this route hands out. site_base_url ships
blank, so that fallback is the default path on a fresh install, not an edge
case, and GET /api/printers/install-batch is public.

Three rules now:
  - the host is validated as a hostname before it is interpolated, so the quote
    that would end the literal never reaches it,
  - X-Forwarded-Host is only believed when TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT declares a proxy
    -- the rule shopdb/utils/clientip.py already applies to X-Forwarded-For.
    That was centralised for this exact reason and did not cover the Host
    variant,
  - a request supplying neither usable header gets a relative base, which still
    downloads correctly from the browser that fetched the script.

Three tests pin it, and all three were confirmed to fail with the old body
restored rather than assumed to cover it.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 13:52:06 -04:00
cproudlock
1480b30e8c Let a person edit the asset fields the pages already display
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Eight fields across three asset types were shown on the detail page and
accepted by the API, but had no input on the form. A wrong value therefore
needed database access to correct, which is not a thing anybody should need
for a device category or a maintenance date.

The shape is the same in each case: a column was added, the detail card was
written, the API allowlist was updated, and the form was missed. Nothing was
broken - the values arrive by import or collector - so nothing complained.

PCs gain azureobjectid and azuredevicecategory. azuredeviceid was already
there, which is what made the omission easy to miss: the page showed two ids
and the form offered one. The two are not interchangeable and the pairing is
counterintuitive - the DEVICE id opens Intune, the OBJECT id opens Entra - so
each input says where it goes.

Machines gain the three maintenance fields. These matter beyond the immediate
fix: they are the columns a measuring instrument's calibration dates map onto
when metrology moves to machines, and until now there was no way to enter a
calibration date on a machine at all.

Printers gain iscolor, isduplex and isnetwork as a capability group.
isnetwork defaults to true in the form to match the API's create default; a
new printer claiming otherwise would be wrong for nearly all of them.

Checked before making any of these editable that nothing writes them
automatically - a hand edit silently reverted by the next collector poll would
be worse than no input at all. The printers collector reports queues and
supplies, not capabilities, and nothing writes machine maintenance dates,
which is exactly why they are all empty. The two genuinely collector-owned
computer fields, lastreporteddate and lastboottime, are deliberately still not
editable.

Scope: product
2026-09-02 07:53:25 -04:00
cproudlock
dd52666d6b Order the supplies card by how empty the cartridge is
Rows sorted on iscritical then on printer NAME. Critical is everything
at or below 5%, so a cartridge at 5% and one at 0% tied on the first key
and the alphabet decided which came first.

Wrong order on its own, and worse than it looks: the dashboard queue
keeps only the first few rows per source, so a printer that was
genuinely empty was truncated off the card while a fuller one held its
place. Reported from the floor as "starts at 5% and hides one at 0%",
which is exactly the two bugs compounding.

remaining is already normalised for waste cartridges - a full waste bin
reads as low remaining - so one ascending sort is worst-first for every
supply type, and iscritical falls out of it rather than needing its own
key. Name only breaks ties.

worstremaining is carried on the row because the supplies list is
rendered to text ("Black 0%") before it reaches the client, so the
number the sort needs is gone by then.

The toner forecast report was already worst-first (it sorts on daysleft)
and is unchanged.

Scope: product
(cherry picked from commit 6644a07ae1)
2026-08-31 09:06:25 -04:00
cproudlock
b5fc5c01d1 Stay quiet when a site never asked for supply monitoring
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Splitting "cannot see the cartridges" from "nothing is low" was right, but it
treated two unlike cases as one. isconfigured means enabled AND a URL AND a
token, so its absence means the site did not ask for supply monitoring at all -
and a permanent "Supply monitoring is not configured" line is a card reporting
nothing wrong every day, which is how a board teaches people to stop reading it.
It matters for sites adopting ShopDB without Zabbix, who would otherwise inherit
a warning about a feature they declined.

Not configured now returns a plain empty and the card hides. Only configured and
unanswerable reports itself, because that is something meant to work that is not
working.

Also withdraws an unfounded inference. A dev box has no route to Zabbix by
design, so "not reachable" there is the expected state and says nothing about
what production can see. The value of this change is not that it revealed a
production fault; it is that when production's Zabbix does go down, the board
will say so instead of displaying "Low Supplies 0".

Four tests pin the three cases apart: unreachable reports, unconfigured stays
quiet, and a real zero from a reachable Zabbix is not flagged as blindness. The
fourth holds the envelope's rows, since carrying a reason changed the response
shape. Verified they are not vacuous by restoring the original branch in place -
the unreachable test fails against it.

Full suite 2182 passed.
2026-08-29 21:34:48 -04:00
cproudlock
b80bd8731f Filter the queue by check, and say when a check cannot answer
TWO CONTROLS, ONE BOARD

Severity answers "how bad". It could not answer "what kind", and on a fleet
where eight endpoints go quiet at once, being able to set those aside and look
at the four crashes is the difference between a board and a list.

Chips per contributing check, coloured by its severity, composing with the
severity rollup above them. Both narrow what is already loaded rather than
refetching, so no combination can disagree with the counts. Picking a severity
that excludes the active chip clears the chip: two controls lit above an empty
queue, neither obviously wrong, is worse than losing the narrower one.

A chip counts every row, not the rows the queue had room for. A chip reading 5
above a "3 more" line would be its own small lie.

"LOW SUPPLIES 0" WAS NOT TRUE

Asked what happened to toner replacement, and the answer was worse than the
layout question that prompted it.

_get_low_supplies_data returned the same empty result for three different
situations: Zabbix not configured, Zabbix unreachable, and every cartridge
full. The dashboard strip therefore displayed "Low Supplies 0 / Critical 0"
while the monitoring was dead - and this instance is exactly that case, with
zabbix_enabled true against a URL nothing answers on.

So the strip removed in the previous commit was not information. It was
reassurance, and it read identically whether the printers were fine or nobody
could see them. That is the failure this codebase already names elsewhere: an
empty card and a broken card must not look the same.

The endpoint now distinguishes the three, and returns an envelope rather than a
bare list so a card can say WHY it has no rows. cardVisible shows such a card
whatever its empty rule, because "I cannot tell" is not "nothing to report".

It renders as a notice line, not a queue row: there is no asset to act on, and
burying "the monitor is dead" among the things it failed to find would be the
same mistake in a new place.

Note what this does NOT fix: the Zabbix URL on this instance is a dev
placeholder. The board will now say so instead of implying the cartridges are
full, but somebody still has to point it at a real server - and it is worth
checking what production points at, since nothing would have shown there either.

Frontend 314 passed (13 new), full suite 2178. The response shape changed from
a list to an envelope; no test depended on the old shape.
2026-08-29 21:16:28 -04:00
cproudlock
13c46af5ce Rebuild the dashboard around what needs a person
The board was one card per source in a fixed grid, and both halves of that hurt.

Every source got the same small box whatever it had to say. Warranties showed 5
of 50 behind "and 45 more"; the crash card truncated at 4; a one-row card sat
beside a four-row card and left a hole. Nothing had room, which is the complaint
that started this: not enough space to relay the data.

And a box per source flattened priority. An enforcement failure and a warranty
notice looked equally urgent because each owned a card, while the largest type
on the page belonged to counts that are true every day and need nobody.

WHAT THE PAGE IS NOW

A severity rollup, one worst-first queue of everything that needs a person, and
a row of context beneath it.

The queue merges every critical and warning row and sorts them, so reading order
is work order. It is full width, which is where the room came from. Rows are
capped per source, because fifty expiring warranties must not bury two crashed
PCs, and what did not fit is named per source with a link to it - a bare "and 45
more" that leads nowhere is worse than saying nothing.

The rollup counts ROWS, not cards, and filters the board in place rather than
navigating away, so the counts and the rows cannot disagree.

Severity, position and permission were already declared per card and already
sorted on. The old layout threw that away; this only stops it.

WHAT WENT, AND WHY IT SHOULD NOT COME BACK

Four asset tiles plus an "All assets" tile: machines + PCs + printers + network
IS all assets, so the page showed a total beside its own addends at the same
weight. It is now a line under a rule, where a total belongs.

The printer strip. It carried the printer count a third time - the tile row and
"Total Printers" were already the same number - and "Online" equalled total, so
three tiles held one fact. A genuinely low cartridge already reaches the queue
through the printers-supplies card, which is the moment anyone wants it.

Three cards whose whole job was to display 0.

Recent Devices: the largest block on the page, listing five machines that were
all "In Use" with business unit "TBD". Recency is not a reason to look at
something.

CONTRACT 0.26.0: 'shortname'

Cards may declare a short label for their rows in the merged queue. Their
'title' is written as a heading - "Endpoints with crashes or shutdowns" - and as
a row badge it ran wider than the hostname it qualified, putting the badge
rather than the asset at the start of every line. CSS-truncating the title was
tried first and was worse: four consecutive rows reading "ENDPOINTS WITH CR..."
say nothing at all. Optional and defaults to the title, so a plugin that does
not declare one is unaffected. Additive field, minor bump.

ALSO: "silent 1 days"

A meta suffix is written for the plural case and the card cannot know the value.
One row saying it was a shrug; the merged queue puts every quiet endpoint on one
screen, so it said it five times in a column and read as broken. Now singularised
at exactly 1, on the first word, keeping what follows: "1 event (48h)", "silent 1
day". The test asserting ' ms' survives is what caught the first version turning
it into ' m'.

DashboardRow.vue is extracted because the queue and the context panels render
the same row, and the map tooltip, link fallbacks and chips are too easy to get
subtly different in a second copy.

Verified on screen against live data. Full suite 2178 passed, frontend 301.
2026-08-29 21:05:48 -04:00
cproudlock
c22c81afa5 Show the controls link from both ends, and fix the dead chip links
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THE RECIPROCAL LINKS BUG

A PC's page showed "Serves machine 7803" at the top. The machine's page showed
nothing equivalent, though the same edge was right there in the relationships
card at the bottom. That asymmetry read as missing data and was reported as
such.

It was neither missing data nor an API fault. The endpoint returns both
directions and always did; AssetTriageBand already walked outgoing AND incoming
and deduped, with a comment explaining that production holds reciprocal rows.
It then discarded every peer whose asset type was not 'machine', and hardcoded
the label "Serves machine". So the component could only ever work from the PC
side, and it was mounted only on the PC page.

The counterpart type and label are now props, defaulting to the old values so
the PC page is unchanged. The machine page mounts the band with
counterparttype="computer" and the label "Controlled by".

Eliminated with evidence rather than assumed, because this bug had already been
misdiagnosed twice: the endpoint runs two queries and returns both arrays; the
generic card renders both; that route has no pagination to clamp; and a single
permission gate cannot admit one direction and not the other.

THE RELATIONSHIP TYPE WAS ALSO HARDCODED

Not every asset pair is linked by 'controls'. A machine reaches a printer
through usesprinter and defaultprinter, so the band was blank on the printer
page - the one page where the link is not obvious from the asset itself. The
types are now a prop, and the printer page passes its own.

THE CHIPS WERE DEAD LINKS

Found while adopting the band more widely. It linked to /assets/<assetid>.
There is no /assets/:id route and no catch-all, so every chip in the band was
dead - and this change would have propagated that to four more pages.

AssetRelationships.vue already resolved this correctly and privately. That
function is now frontend/src/utils/assetRoute.js and both components use it, so
a third caller cannot get it wrong again. Two things it gets right that are easy
to miss: the detail routes key on pluginid, not assetid, so passing assetid
opens the wrong record; and the lookup is now case-insensitive, because
csvimport.py seeds 'Computer' and 'Machine' capitalised while this site's
database holds them lowercase - a case-sensitive match produced dead links at
whichever site seeded the other way.

The band now carries pluginid and assettypename on each chip, which the
resolver needs.

TESTS

assetRoute had none and neither did the band. Seven cover the resolver,
including the assetid-vs-pluginid confusion and the seeding-case difference.

On the backend, nothing asserted that the TARGET of a directional edge receives
it in `incoming` - only that rows carry isdirectional. That missing assertion is
this bug's exact shape, so it is now pinned: the endpoint was right all along,
and the next such report should not cost anyone a re-diagnosis of the API.

Verified on screen: the machine page shows "Controlled by G6K76CW3ESF" in the
hero, the PC page is unchanged, and a page with no such link renders no empty
band. Full suite 2162 passed, frontend 280 passed.
2026-08-29 18:58:06 -04:00
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784964c907 Bring the wilm branch into main: endpoints plugin, agent, policies, CSV import
Ports the corporate-GitHub wilm branch onto main, keeping the two branches
separate. Thirteen upstream commits arrive with their authorship intact; the
review fixes and the portability work below are on top.

What arrives:

  endpoints plugin  - a ShopDB agent reporting endpoint state, telemetry,
                      services and interfaces, with a command channel the agent
                      long-polls. Ingest stays on the generic collector route
                      (ADR-006); the agent key is a UI-managed single-scope
                      token whose revocation is an instant kill switch.
  computers policies - Configuration and Business Policies (RMM-style), scope
                      trees validated at write time, actions checked against
                      the endpoints command allowlist. Feature-gated: every
                      route 404s while the setting is off, so enabling it can
                      never half-expose the surface.
  asset CSV import  - templates, a collector script carrying the site path, and
                      a validate-then-commit import. A plugin can own a virtual
                      column plus a post-write row hook, which is how a PC's
                      machine number becomes a controls link without a
                      hand-built relationships sheet.
  agent/            - the Windows agent and its installer.

Contract 0.21.0 -> 0.24.0, additive throughout: register_import_hook (0.22),
mint/list/revoke_service_token (0.23), collector_authorized (0.24). The stability
table had no rows for any of them and now does.

MySQL 5.6 portability. The branch stored three policy columns as sa.JSON, the
only JSON columns in the product, and 5.6 has no JSON type: the migration failed
with a bare syntax error near the word JSON. They are TEXT now, through a
JSONText type decorator, so all seventeen call sites still read and write dicts.
The convention elsewhere is already TEXT (guides.blocksjson,
geenforce.manifestjson).

Review fixes carried on top:

  - six policy GETs were jwt_required(optional=True), which authenticates a
    caller without checking anything; they require computers.view now, and six
    redundant jwt_required decorators are gone
  - the agent installer took a default BaseUrl and CollectorKey, so a mistyped
    run silently pointed an endpoint at the wrong instance; both are mandatory
    and a non-https BaseUrl throws unless -AllowInsecureHttp is passed
  - a committing CSV import wrote no audit row

Documentation: the 34 new routes are described in docs/api-inventory.json, which
is hand-maintained on purpose, and the generated spec now covers 331 paths and
477 operations across 22 surfaces. DEVELOPMENT-SETUP's 1071 troubleshooting row
said "use MySQL 8 for dev" and now gives the actual fix, including the trap that
5.6 downgrades ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC to Compact with a warning instead of an error.

Full suite 2123 passed, vitest 260 passed, all seventeen plugin chains migrate
clean on MySQL 5.6 and the naming, docs, parity and read-surface gates are green.
2026-08-28 16:17:17 -04:00
cproudlock
4e59fe30b2 A nav item says which permission its page needs
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The sidebar hides what the caller cannot reach - that is what makes it useful
to a guest, and what stops a member with a sparse role being offered links that
can only answer 403. It reads the permission off the nav item to decide.

Only four items ever declared one. Machines, PCs, Printers, Network, USB,
Knowledge Base, Notifications, Calendar, Dashboard, Map, Applications and
Reports declared nothing, so the filter had nothing to go on: granting the
guest role machines.view opened the API and left the sidebar empty, which reads
as the grant not working.

Every item now names its read permission - in the plugins, in the core
navigation endpoint, and in the frontend's fallback list, which is what renders
when the endpoint is unreachable and would otherwise disagree with it.
2026-08-27 14:50:52 -04:00
cproudlock
afce24379c Reading anything needs a permission
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A sweep of the URL map found 165 GET routes that answered anybody, with no
token at all: the whole asset inventory, every machine, PC, printer and network
device, the USB checkout history and who is holding which drive, the staff
directory with its photographs, every core report. Guest access had been argued
about one feature-flag at a time while the front door stood open.

Each of those now carries the read permission it belongs to. That also makes
the guest role mean something: a site can open exactly the reads it chooses,
and nothing follows by accident.

Thirty-three endpoints stay public, and each is named with its reason rather
than left to be inferred: the app shell and its bootstrap, the settings
allowlist (the handler already filters an anonymous caller down to branding and
a few keys), images fetched by <img src> which carries no Authorization header,
what a display kiosk renders before anybody signs in, the parts and USB kiosks,
the client scripts that run as SYSTEM before a user session exists, and a
secure-send link whose unguessable token IS the authorisation.

tests/test_core/test_public_read_surface.py is the standing gate, the companion
to the mutating-route sweep that has guarded writes for months. A new public
read fails CI until somebody adds it to that list in front of a reviewer. Four
further reads need a login but no permission, because the handler decides from
who you are - your own user record, your own API tokens, the role catalogue the
grid renders - and the same test proves each still refuses an anonymous caller.
Verified not vacuous by ungating one route and watching the sweep name it.

The employees plugin gained employees.view; the directory is names, SSOs,
photographs and reporting lines, and it had no permission of any kind.

Around ninety tests asserted payload shapes against endpoints that answered
anybody. They are about what the answer says, not about who may ask, so they
are signed in now rather than the gate being loosened. The ones that assert an
anonymous caller is refused were left exactly as they were.
2026-08-27 14:26:06 -04:00
cproudlock
151d7c4f44 Anyone not signed in holds the guest role
Whether somebody with no account may see something was being answered one
feature at a time: a securesend_allow_guests setting, an enable flag per kiosk,
and very nearly a third for guides - each with its own settings page, its own
vocabulary and its own hand-written branch inside a route. Every one of them
answered a permissions question, and this app already administers permissions
per role.

So a caller with no token is not nobody: they hold the seeded `guest` role.
require_permission consults it when there is no identity, which is the entire
mechanism. The role is seeded holding NOTHING, so an upgrade opens no door; a
site opens one by ticking a box in the same grid it uses for every other role,
and closes it the same way. Revocation is read on every request rather than
cached, because taking guest access away is what somebody does the moment they
realise what they opened, and it has to bite immediately.

The redundant @jwt_required() above require_permission is gone from 184 routes.
It was belt-and-braces before; now it is actively wrong, because it refuses a
request with no token before the permission check can have an opinion, so a
grant would appear to do nothing.

What a guest may hold is bounded. Any .view or .read permission is grantable.
A WRITE has to be blessed by whoever owns it, through the new
get_guest_grantable_permissions hook (contract 0.21.0), and Secure Send is the
only case that exists: sending a password to a vendor is the one write this
product means to offer somebody who never signs in. Everything else is refused
by the API and greyed out in the grid rather than warned about - a checkbox
that quietly makes deleting an asset anonymous is not a warning anybody reads
twice. A guest write records no creator: the trail says when and from where,
never who, and that is the reason for the bar.

GE-Enforce and Slides gained read permissions so they can be opened to guests
without handing out the manage right. Their read routes accept either through
require_any_permission, so nothing an existing manager could reach has moved.

The navigation endpoint now returns only what the caller can actually reach.
Without that a signed-out visitor gets a sidebar of the whole app where every
link bounces off the login page, which reads as a broken site rather than as a
closed door. A nav item may name several permissions; holding any one is
enough, which is what GE-Enforce and Slides need now that a viewer and a
manager hold different strings.

Two things this found on the way: current_user is a LocalProxy, so
`current_user is None` is False for a request with nobody behind it - harmless
under a required JWT, an AttributeError the moment verification became
optional. And an image pasted into a guide before its first save was never
attached to it, so it was visible to editors and invisible to every reader;
saving now attaches it, and `flask guides fix-images` repairs what is stored.

The guides guest setting written earlier today is gone. Granting guides.view to
the guest role replaces it, which is the point.
2026-08-27 12:51:58 -04:00
cproudlock
de3ca70592 Every report offers to email itself, and a long drive name stays in its card
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POST /api/reports/email has always taken any {columns, rows} from any caller,
but the Email report button existed on the toner and warranty pages only - not
because those reports are special, but because they happen to be their own
routed pages and the reports page had no button at all. It is now beside Export
CSV for every report the page can build a table from, which is all of them:
plugin reports through their declared columns, core reports through the flat
list they return, and the asset inventory summary by flattening its three
tables into one with the grouping named in a column. Presentation-only fields -
a status colour, a link id - are left out; a column of hex codes is worse than
no column. The shapes live in a module with tests rather than in the view.

The button is now hidden without reports.export on all three pages. Offering
somebody a button that can only answer 403 is worse than not offering it.

Separately, on the USB kiosk a long drive name pushed Take or Return out
through the side of its card, leaving a drive nobody could press. The name is a
flex item and so defaulted to min-width:auto, keeping its full intrinsic width;
it now yields, wraps mid-word for the serial-style names that carry no spaces,
and clamps its description to two lines so one long name cannot make every card
in the row tall. The locker line is never clipped - it is how somebody finds
the drive.
2026-08-27 10:55:33 -04:00
cproudlock
2ad2bd1b90 Sidebar sections are DECLARED, not guessed from a position number
The section headings were derived from position ranges: 10-29 became Assets,
30-49 became Information. A number is for ORDER; it was never a statement about
meaning, and using it as one meant a plugin landed in whichever bucket its
number happened to fall in.

That is how USB Devices - an asset - came to sit under Information beside
GE-Enforce and Tech Tools, and 3D Parts with it. Nobody chose that. It also
meant two plugins picking the same number silently reordered each other:
Warranties and Guides both held 8, the tie broke on plugin load order, and
Guides rendered under Warranties rather than under Slides where it was asked to
go. Warranties moves to 9.

Each nav item now names its section and the renderer groups by what was
declared. An item with no section stays in the unlabelled group at the top,
which is the safe default: it appears, it is simply not filed.

Assets gains USB Devices and 3D Parts. GE-Enforce and Tech Tools move to a new
Fleet section - they are neither assets nor reference material, and calling them
Information was only ever an artefact of their position numbers.

Also: sorting used `position || 99`, and 0 is falsy in JavaScript, so Dashboard -
the only item that uses 0 - sorted to the end of its own group.
2026-08-27 09:25:27 -04:00
cproudlock
dba8fc6071 Let somebody retire an asset without an API call
Five of the seven asset types had no way to take a record out of ShopDB from
the interface. Network devices and 3D printed parts had a button; machines,
PCs, printers and measuring tools did not, so a scrapped tool stayed in every
list and report until somebody went to the API.

The endpoints were already there and already correct. Every one of these
DELETEs sets asset.isactive = False and nothing more, so the record leaves the
lists while its calibration history, backups and relationships stay exactly
where they were.

Called "Retire" rather than "Delete" for that reason: the two existing buttons
say Delete, which reads as destruction of a record that is in fact kept and can
be restored by setting isactive back. The confirm says so too, because the
question somebody needs answered before clicking is whether the history goes
with it.

The button is guarded on the record having loaded, on the two pages whose
action row renders before the fetch resolves - measuring tools showed Retire
beside a hidden Edit while the tool was still loading, which would have called
delete with an undefined id.

printersApi had no delete method at all; added.

USB is deliberately left out. It retires through a status column in the
external CMMC database rather than isactive, has its own /retire endpoint, and
needs its own decision about what retiring means there.
2026-08-26 13:51:16 -04:00
cproudlock
ed5d64fa3e Name the record in the browser tab, not just the section
Every detail page read "West Jefferson ShopDB - Machine". Two tabs on two
different machines were indistinguishable, a bookmark said nothing about what
it pointed at, and a link shared into Teams previewed as the section rather
than the thing.

The router cannot fix this alone: afterEach runs before the view has fetched
anything, so it only ever knows the KIND of page. So a detail view names its
record once the record arrives, and both writers go through
composables/pageTitle.js.

THE ORDERING IS THE WHOLE PROBLEM. The router awaits the site settings to build
the "<facility> ShopDB" prefix, so on a cold load it finishes AFTER a view that
fetched quickly and would overwrite the good title with the generic one. The
route's fullPath is claimed before that await, and the generic write stands
down when a record title already belongs to the route being landed on. The
reverse case is handled too: a view that names its record BEFORE the facility
name arrives composed against the placeholder prefix, so the late resolve
rewrites it rather than leaving "ShopDB - CSF16" on a site called West
Jefferson. Both are pinned by tests, because both fail only under timing.

Covers machines, PCs, printers, network devices, subnets, measuring tools, USB
devices, printed parts, applications, employees, knowledge base articles and
guides. Printers reuse the page's own displayTitle, which already discards the
literal name "NONE" a discovered queue can carry, so the tab and the heading
agree.

A record with no usable name, or one that failed to load, keeps the section
name: "Machine" beats "Machine 4192" for somebody scanning a row of tabs.
Long names are cut at a word boundary - knowledge base articles are named with
a whole sentence of description, which a browser otherwise truncates mid-word.

Reports gained meta.title, which the router already supported and nothing used.
That also fixes "Pc Relationships", which the name-derived spelling produced.
2026-08-26 13:13:30 -04:00
cproudlock
b96637e1a1 Let a baseline meet a table that is already there
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Reported: `flask plugin upgrade-all` failed the tools plugin with "table
securesendsecrets already exists".

Every post-cutover baseline emitted a plain op.create_table. That is correct
only while a table's existence and its plugin's Alembic stamp can never
disagree, and they can. Anything that builds tables from the models -
db.create_all(), which `flask db-utils create-all` calls - creates them and
stamps nothing. A run that creates a table and then fails before its stamp
commits leaves the same split, and re-running is the obvious thing to try. In
both cases upgrade-all meets existing tables with an unstamped chain and the
create is fatal.

Nothing caught it because the migration test DROPS the post-cutover tables
db.create_all() built before running upgrade-all. That arranges the one state
where an unguarded create works, and never the state the report came from. The
new test is the same sequence with the drop removed for the plugin under test.

create_table_if_missing and create_index_if_missing are in alembic_template.py
next to create_plugin_tables, which had the idempotency rule right and turns out
to be called by nobody - its docstring claimed every 0001 used it. Fixed the
docstring rather than rewiring the baselines onto it, because the reason they
hand-write their DDL still stands: the helper's per-plugin MetaData cannot
resolve a foreign key to a core table at CreateTable-compile time.

INDEXES ARE MATCHED ON COLUMNS, NOT NAME, and that distinction matters. The two
creators disagree about names - db.create_all() takes SQLAlchemy's default
convention (ix_securesendsecrets_token) and a baseline spells it the way this
repo's naming rules require (ixsecuresendsecretstoken). A name-keyed guard would
have called the index missing and added a second one over the same column, which
MySQL permits with a warning, so every affected site would have quietly grown
duplicates. The test asserts no table ends up with two indexes over the same
columns.

Applied to all nine table-creating plugin migrations, not just the tools
baseline that was reported: the four later migrations that create tables have
the same exposure, and geenforce, measuringtools, printedparts and backups are
the same defect waiting for a different site.

WHAT THIS DOES NOT FIX. It makes a baseline idempotent, not a whole chain. A
longer chain can still meet an ALTER whose column is already present -
printedparts adding gagelabtag to a table create_all built at head is the case
that showed up while testing. Guarding every op one at a time is the wrong
answer to that; a database built from the models is already AT head and its
chains want stamping rather than replaying, and there is no `flask plugin stamp`
today. Left alone deliberately rather than half-built, and the new test is
scoped to single-baseline plugins so it does not pretend otherwise.
2026-08-24 09:28:37 -04:00
cproudlock
3703412baf Only zero is empty, and the last day is worth reading
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Two separate floors were collapsing a live cartridge into a spent one, and
removing either alone changes nothing.

EMPTY_LEVEL was 5, so everything at or below 5% was assigned daysleft 0
outright. The reasoning was that a printer at 1% is out of toner as far as
anyone standing at it is concerned. But the row exists to say how long is
left, and 2% draining a point a day has two days in it. Flooring put that
cartridge beside ones that genuinely are empty with no way back to the
difference. It is 0 now: empty means empty.

int(level / rate) then truncated the division, so anything under a full day
arrived as 0 whatever the floor did - a cartridge with six hours in it was
indistinguishable from one with nothing, and the band read it as empty.
daysleft is fractional now, rounded to two places, which is about a quarter of
an hour: finer than the estimate deserves, but it costs nothing and keeps the
ordering of two nearly-spent cartridges meaningful.

daysText reads in whatever unit carries meaning: "6 hours", "1 hour", "29 min",
"4 days". Below an hour it goes to minutes with a floor of one, because
rounding hours would land back on "empty" - the same bug one rung down.

BEHAVIOUR CHANGE worth knowing: a cartridge at 1-5% with NO history used to get
daysleft 0 from the floor and land on the order list. A rate needs two
readings; with none there is nothing to divide, and the old answer was right by
accident - it said "empty" about a level nobody had watched move. It now
reports 'no history' and shows under "No estimate yet". This reaches only
printers newly added to Zabbix; anything that got to 3% the ordinary way has
the history to forecast from.

Five existing tests pinned the old rule. They recorded a real decision, so they
are rewritten to the new one rather than deleted. One of them was passing for
the wrong reason: its series (2.0, 1.7, 1.4, 1.1) drops 0.9, under
MIN_DROP_FOR_ESTIMATE, so it never had a rate at all and only passed because
the floor short-circuited ahead of the rate check. It now uses a real 20-day
drop at a tenth of a point a day and asserts the ten days its docstring always
described.

The forecast fixture's black cartridge moves from 1% to 0% so the empty band
keeps its API-level coverage, and a magenta at 3% covers hours-left end to end.
2026-08-21 11:57:02 -04:00
cproudlock
b7cfd2b198 A supply nobody could read is unknown, not empty
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Reported as "CSF04 now reports all 0%", on the printer's own page as well as
the reports. Every supply on one host reading zero at the same instant is not
what a set of cartridges does; it is what a host that stopped answering looks
like.

getsuppliesbyip turned every unreadable item into 0:

    try:
        level = int(float(item.get("lastvalue", 0)))
    except (ValueError, TypeError):
        level = 0

An item that has never collected returns lastvalue as an EMPTY STRING, so
float('') raised and the handler substituted zero. lastclock was fetched in the
same request and read by nothing at all, so a reading from three weeks ago was
presented as current.

Zero is a legitimate level meaning spent, which is what made the substitution
dangerous rather than merely wrong. Downstream it reached `level <=
EMPTY_LEVEL`, which set daysleft to 0, which put the printer on the order list:
the report asked purchasing to buy a full set of cartridges for a printer
nobody had measured. On a waste container it was worse - waste is scored as
100 - level, so an unreadable one read as 100% full, the alarm state.

_readlevel now returns (level, lastseen) with level None for no usable reading:
empty, missing or unparseable lastvalue, or a lastclock older than 24h. A
lastclock that is absent is not treated as stale - a reading that cannot be
aged is not thereby wrong, and discarding it would lose real levels. A genuine
"0" is still 0, which is the half that keeps an actually-empty cartridge on the
order list.

classifysupply gains an 'unknown' status with remaining None. It is not
critical: critical is a claim someone acts on, and it may not be made about a
supply nobody measured.

The low-supplies report skips unknown rather than listing it as needing
replacement, and counts it in summary.unknown - a printer that has gone quiet
should be visible as that, not absent and not masquerading as empty.
_annotate_supply reads .get('level') with no 0 default, which would have put
the whole bug back.

PrinterDetail already rendered `level !== null ? ... : 'N/A'`, so it starts
telling the truth as soon as the backend sends null; the UI had been written
for a case the service never produced. It gains the unknown style - muted, not
a severity colour - and a tooltip separating "no reading at all" from "no
reading since <date>", which are different faults with different fixes.

Alerts needed no change: float(None) raises and that loop already continues,
so unknown supplies stop firing low-toner emails as a consequence.

12 of the 16 new tests fail on the old code. The 4 that pass either way pin
that real zeros still behave, which is the regression this fix could cause.

Not verified against CSF04's actual Zabbix data - dev has no reachable Zabbix.
This fixes the mechanism that turns unknown into 0%; /api/printers/<id>/supplies
now distinguishes them, with null for no reading and 0 for a measured zero.
2026-08-21 11:43:56 -04:00
cproudlock
f9d298c7f0 Name the toner on the forecast, keep the number on the hover
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The forecast identified a cartridge by its part number alone. 'W2020X' only
tells you which toner it is once you already know, and both places that name a
supply - the Order now list and the Part column - showed nothing else, so the
report read as a list of codes.

Both now show marketingname, which is what the box says: '414X Black'. The
part number moves to the title attribute, one hover away, because it is still
the thing an order is placed against. A supply with no name on file falls back
to the number rather than showing an empty cell; marketingname is nullable.

'Copy list' is deliberately untouched. It writes the part number verbatim,
which is what purchasing pastes into an order, and a spec pins that the name
does NOT reach that text.

firstPart() now returns the whole part row rather than its number, since the
cell needs both halves. It has one caller.

Dropped the .partnumber style with its .unmapped variant: nothing renders that
class any more, and the variant was already dead - the unmapped block lists no
part number by definition.

Verified by mounting the component against a fixture. The dev box has no
Zabbix, so the page itself has no rows to look at there.
2026-08-21 11:22:58 -04:00
cproudlock
5001aedcf9 Offer a spelling on every list, not just the global search
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Correction only helped on the global search page, and people search from the
list they are already on. Extending it turned out to be a shape question rather
than a volume one: thirty routes take a search parameter across a dozen files,
so carrying a suggestion in each of their responses is a large change today and
one more thing every future plugin author has to remember.

So the suggestion moved to ITS OWN ENDPOINT, /api/search/suggest, which any page
can call after rendering no rows. A page that has not adopted it shows nothing,
which is exactly what it showed before - nothing breaks by omission.

The plumbing lives in useListQuery, which already owned the search term, so a
list needs three lines: take `suggestion` and `reportCount` from the composable,
call reportCount(rows.length) after a fetch, and drop SearchSuggestion into the
empty state it already has. A list that never calls reportCount never offers a
suggestion.

Wired: global search, machines, printers, PCs, network devices, measuring tools,
knowledge base, vendors. NOT wired, deliberately: the type and reference lists
(machine types, PC types, VLANs, subnets, operating systems and the rest), which
are small controlled vocabularies nobody typo-searches, and USB, whose empty
state has a different shape and wants doing by hand rather than by pattern.

TRAP FOUND WHILE WIRING IT, and left commented in every page: applying a
suggestion by calling setSearch alone updates the box and the URL and does NOT
reload the list. setSearch only syncs the URL, and the watcher that would reload
is suppressed because search.value already holds the new term - the same trap
the global search page documents in performSearch. Each page calls its own load
function directly.

The composable guards a stale answer arriving after a newer search was typed,
never offers back the word that was typed, and swallows its own errors: a search
that found nothing is already the answer, and failing to improve on it is not
worth an error in front of anyone.

The route-parity gate caught the new endpoint being served without an entry in
docs/api-inventory.json, which is hand-written on purpose; added, and the spec
regenerated from it (283 paths, 418 operations). That regeneration also carries
the openapi version to 0.12.0, left over from the release.
2026-08-21 11:14:56 -04:00
cproudlock
875fde9f48 Fix what the last round of device fixes broke, and two dips it missed
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A review of d60ed60 and 8b9b936 found five things. Three were introduced by
those commits.

REFUSING A NAMED DEVICE MADE A MARKER PC CLAIM ITS OPERATION. _sync_partmarker
returned [] both for "not a marker PC" and for "a marker PC that linked
nothing", and the caller reads [] as the first - so a bay whose asset-id.txt
named something unresolvable fell through to the ordinary machine link, and for
a marker PC the machine number IS the operation. It took an active link to a
record that can only have one holder while several markers share it, and the
warning said "not linked". The previous behaviour minted a twin; this traded
that for a contested operation. None now means "not a marker PC" and is the only
answer that lets the machine link run; the response normalises it away so the
API shape is unchanged.

A DORMANT CHALLENGER WAS PROMOTED BY DELETING A FILE. Recording a challenger
dormant leaves a row that the next cycle finds as `reuse` and reactivated with
no incumbent check - so a second PC took a live device by its enrollment file
becoming unreadable. Both reuse branches re-check incumbency now, which is what
_sync_machine_link always did.

AN INCUMBENT UNDER ANOTHER COLLECTOR LABEL WAS INVISIBLE. Incumbency was queried
on our own label, but on a CMM the instrument IS the reported bay, so the
incumbent's link is the machine sync's row. A second PC naming that instrument
found no incumbent and linked actively: two live holders of one instrument, each
invisible to the other. Incumbency now counts any collector-owned label. A row
made BY HAND carries none of them and is still excluded - a person's link is not
the collector's to archive.

THE NETWORK FORM LOCKED OUT THE ROWS IT NEEDED TO FIX. Asset number is disabled
while editing, correctly, but the payload is built in script so the blank was
still sent - and the new server-side guard rejects it. A device with no asset
number could not be saved at all, and the field could not be typed into. It now
unlocks only for a record that loaded without one, with a hint saying why.

"2 in 4.0d" WAS THE LABEL LYING. Replacements are counted across the whole
history window; basisdays is only how long the current cartridge has been in.
Joining them with "in" claimed two changes inside four days - the exact shape
reported as unbelievable, except here the data was right. Now "2, this one 4.0d".

Two toner dips the same review found:

A MULTI-POLL OUTAGE STILL MINTED A PHANTOM SWAP. Only single readings were
dropped, so 90, 0, 0, 90 survived and 0 -> 90 scored as a change. Dips of any
length are handled now. One bad sample stays a candidate whatever the polling
cadence, because a reading is an instant; several consecutive low ones only
count as one outage when they are close together, since days at zero is a real
empty period. That time bound also separates an outage from a swap, ordinary
consumption, and a second swap, which have the same shape in levels alone.

THE DIP FILTER ATE REAL SWAPS OF NEARLY-FULL CARTRIDGES. Recovery was tested
with an absolute difference, so 95 then 5 then 100 read as a recovery because
100 and 95 are close, and the swap evidence was deleted. Toner only falls: a
recovery comes back at or BELOW where it left, a new cartridge comes back
higher.

The review also proved by reverting each feature that the previous tests did not
pin the median burn rate or the near-full rule - both passed with the bug
restored. Verified by the same method that all four toner behaviours now fail
when reverted, and the burst assertion is tight enough to tell 0.2 from 0.88.
2026-08-21 08:49:38 -04:00
cproudlock
0c0c7be439 A toner rate needs days behind it, not just readings
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Reported from the floor: two printers showing 81 and 83 percent, both forecast
to run out in a fortnight. That is a rate near 5.8 percent a day on a cartridge
barely touched.

burn_rate required four readings and a 2 point drop, and checked only that some
time had passed - not how much. Supply items are commonly polled every few
minutes, so four readings can span a quarter of an hour, and a 2 point drop
across fifteen minutes extrapolates to nearly 200 percent a day. The report then
sorted that confident wrong number into "soon", next to cartridges that really
are about to run out. It did not look broken; it looked urgent.

A rate now needs two days behind it. Two days is the smallest span that survives
a printer's daily rhythm, so one heavy morning does not become the whole picture.
Below that the answer is "not enough history yet", which the report already has
a home for: band() returns None and the row lands in the "No estimate yet"
section with its reason shown, rather than competing for attention with real
urgency.

This is the third face of the same fault. A phantom replacement truncated the
run - "2 replacements in 2.3 days" was the same printer saying so - and the rate
was then fitted to whatever short stub remained. The near-full rule and the dip
filter stop the truncation; this stops a stub from producing a number at all.
2026-08-20 17:23:34 -04:00
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8b9b9363ee Toner: count cartridge changes that happened, and rate a burst as one burst
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Two things reported from the floor, one cause each.

"5 CHANGES IN 90 DAYS, THAT'S HARD TO BELIEVE." It was. A replacement was any
+10 rise between readings, with no check on where it landed, so two shapes that
are not swaps scored as swaps: a supply reading 0 or near-0 while it was out of
the machine and then reading normally again, and a coarse gauge ticking back up
after a reseat or a power cycle.

A swap must now also LAND near full, because that is what a new cartridge reads,
and a single dip that RECOVERS to roughly where it came from is dropped before
anything looks at it. The dip filter keys on shape rather than cause, which is
why it holds for all of them - a supply pulled out to be shaken, a door open
mid-poll, or a site whose preprocessing maps the Printer MIB's unknown
sentinels onto 0. It is NOT a Zabbix timeout: an item that does not answer
records nothing rather than writing a zero. A genuine near-empty reading before
a real swap does not recover, it jumps to full, so it survives and its swap
still counts.

find_replacements and current_run now read one predicate. When they disagreed, a
phantom rise reset the run and threw away the history the estimate needed - so
the bad count was quietly damaging the rate as well, which is why both were
wrong at once. Expect replacement counts to FALL and per-cartridge history to
lengthen.

A BURST BIASED THE RATE FOR THE LIFE OF THE CARTRIDGE. The rate was the slope
between the first and last reading of the run, and two endpoints cannot tell
"steady" from "burst then stopped". A cartridge that lost 20 percent in two days
and then barely moved for a month read as 0.83 percent/day forever after, so the
report kept promising it would run out long after printing slowed. It is now the
median of the per-interval rates: the burst is one interval among many rather
than one of two points. Rising intervals are dropped as noise; flat ones stay in
at zero, because a cartridge that did not move is real information. If every
interval is flat or rising yet the run dropped overall, it falls back to the
whole-run slope rather than reporting nothing.

Where the intervals disagree by 5x or more the rate carries a marker and an
explanation on hover. The number is still the best estimate available; the flag
stops it reading as a measurement.

The "Changed" column is "Replacements", and its cell says "2 in 90d" rather than
"2 / 90d", which was read as a date, a ratio and a version number.
2026-08-20 16:11:27 -04:00
cproudlock
d60ed602a1 Stop three ways the collector and the forms wrote things nobody asked for
A review of last week's device-identity work found these; two were writing bad
data and one was reproduced against a live server before being fixed.

AN UPDATE COULD BLANK AN ASSET NUMBER, on all six asset update paths. Create
validates it and the column is NOT NULL, but the conflict check only runs when
the value DIFFERS, and '' collides with nothing - so an empty assetnumber went
straight through to a required column. This is the likely source of the assets
found with no number: a form that loaded blank and was then saved.

MACHINEFORM COULD LOAD BLANK AND LET YOU SAVE IT. One try/catch wrapped eight
reference loads AND the machine fetch, so a single transient failure among them
- one page of listAll() timing out during a collector cycle is enough - rejected
the whole block and rendered a fully editable EDIT form with every field empty,
the error banner far below next to Save. Typing an asset number and saving then
wrote the blanks over a real machine. The record now loads in its own try, and a
failure shows the reason INSTEAD of the form: an empty edit form is
indistinguishable from a record whose fields are genuinely empty.

NAMING A DEVICE THAT DID NOT RESOLVE STILL MINTED A TWIN. Both device paths
warned "not linked" and then fell through to mint <HOST>-PARTMARKER or
<HOST>-CMM - the hostname-derived twin the resolution order exists to prevent.
The warning was true about the typo'd number and false about the twin. Naming a
device is a commitment: if the name does not resolve, or resolves to the wrong
kind of thing, link nothing and say so. Silence still means "work it out", so a
bay with no file keeps the reuse-then-mint behaviour it always had.

TWO PCS COULD BOTH HOLD ONE DEVICE, ACTIVELY, WITH NO WARNING. Verified against
a live server: report as one host, then as another naming the same marker, and
both controls rows stayed active. Neither device path had ever looked at who
else held the target - only at links whose source was THIS PC - so a replaced PC
kept its link forever and an asset-id.txt copied to a second bay claimed the
device silently. It now reuses the machine link's rule rather than inventing a
second one: an incumbent that has gone quiet past the claim window or been moved
off In Use has yielded and is archived, never deleted; a live incumbent keeps
the device and the challenger is recorded dormant.

The swap test asserted the old behaviour and now asserts the new one, split in
two: a live incumbent keeps it, and handover completes once the incumbent
yields. Two other tests were passing while their names lied - the unknown-device
one checked only that the typo'd asset was not created, not that nothing was
linked, and it passed while a twin was minted beside it.
2026-08-20 16:11:08 -04:00
cproudlock
3f7cc37b00 Spread a driver rollout across waves so the fleet cannot stampede its own share
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GE-Enforce gives each PC a start offset of SHA256(hostname) % 5 MINUTES and then
repeats every five minutes. That was sized for reading a few KB of manifest
JSON. A driver set is 100 MB for the two universals and 226 MB for a full site,
so the day a driver entry lands, every bay pulls it inside one five-minute
window: roughly 30 GB across 300 bays, at something like 800 Mbps, on the same
share the whole floor needs for everything else. The failure mode is not slow
printers, it is a floor that stops converging.

-WaveStart with -Waves spreads that out. Each PC derives its own wave from its
hostname, so there is no central coordination, no per-bay configuration, and no
list of who has had it yet. The hash is the same idiom Register-GEEnforce.ps1
already uses for its start offset, SHA-256 rather than MD5 because FIPS-enforced
bays disable MD5 outright and would throw.

Measured over 300 hostnames at 10 waves: 23 to 44 bays per wave against a mean of
30, so the peak wave moves about 4.3 GB rather than the 3 GB an average implies.
Hash bucketing is uneven and the peak is what sizes a link, so do not quote the
mean.

THE GATE RUNS BEFORE THE MANIFEST IS READ, because the manifest is on the share
too. A bay that is not due must not touch the share at all - one read is cheap,
300 bays deciding to read in the same five minutes is the entire problem.

It FAILS CLOSED on an unparseable date. Failing open would restore exactly the
stampede this exists to prevent, and 30 GB cannot be un-sent, whereas a typo that
installs nothing says so in the log every cycle and is fixed in a minute.

A bay powered off during its wave installs on its next cycle instead. The wave is
an earliest-time, not a deadline, so nothing needs chasing afterwards.

-TestOnly reports a bay whose wave has not opened as COMPLIANT, because not
installed is genuinely its desired state today; DSC would otherwise call
SetScript every pass to be told to wait. -IgnoreWave is for proving a pilot bay
before opening anything.

Verified on Windows 11 build 26200, six paths: not-due installs nothing and exits
0; TestOnly while not due exits 0; a garbage date exits 1 having installed
nothing; -IgnoreWave installs against a future start; an opened wave installs;
and no wave arguments at all installs, which is what imaging needs.
2026-08-19 17:16:58 -04:00
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2d09fa3201 Collect what bays actually have, separately from what they are told to have
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ShopDB knew what a bay SHOULD have and nothing about what it DOES. Adding the
observed half makes a rollout a review instead of a typing exercise: the floor
reports itself in, you look, and you adopt.

The collection uses the mechanism that already exists rather than a new one.
POST /api/collector/printers dispatches to the printers plugin's
apply_collector_payload, the same ADR-006 hook the computers and backups plugins
implement. New client script, new plugin-owned table, no new transport and no new
credential.

OBSERVED AND ASSIGNED STAY APART, and that is the point rather than a detail. A
collector report can never write an assignment row: _reconcile_edges is the only
function that writes usesprinter/defaultprinter, it has two call sites, and both
are authenticated routes a human calls. If a drifted bay's own state were allowed
to become what it is told to install, every configuration error would become
permanent the next time that PC checked in.

Seeding an assignment from observed state is explicit -
POST /assignments/seed-from-observed - because a rollout adopts many machines at
once. It routes through the same _reconcile_edges as the editor, so there is one
write path with two doors, and a queue matching no known printer is REFUSED
rather than guessed into an assignment. That last rule is the lesson from the
measuring tools: adopting on a weak key produced 43 duplicate instruments.

Two fixes on top of what the agents built. The replace deleted a host's previous
rows by exact case-folded name while the read path treats a short name and its
FQDN as one machine, so a PC that changed spelling appeared to hold every queue
twice - which reads as drift that is not there. And the client sent 'reportedat'
where the declared schema said 'observedat'.

Also here: the legacy loader now imports machines.printerid, the classic system's
record of each machine's default printer, which it silently dropped - the
production import would have lost every one. And Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 finally
registers the per-user logon task, staging Apply-ShopdbDefaultPrinter.ps1 to
C:\ProgramData first because the share it lives on is mounted only during the
enforcement cycle and the task runs at logon when it is gone.

VALIDATED ON WINDOWS 11 (build 26200), not just on Linux pwsh, which parses these
scripts happily and executes none of the spooler branches.

The reporter: posts a correct payload with the X-API-Key header; resolves BaseUrl
and CollectorKey from HKLM when given no arguments; suppresses the virtual queues
by port; resolves port addresses; and reads the CONSOLE USER's default out of
HKU rather than SYSTEM's own, which is a different and usually wrong answer.

Two results matter more than the rest. With the spooler stopped, both the cmdlet
and the CIM path fail and the script posts NOTHING - verified against a capture
server that recorded zero requests, where an empty list would instead have
erased that host's observed rows and read as a bay that lost its printers. A
genuinely empty host still posts [], because that is a real and different fact.

The logon task registers as the Users group at Limited, and falls back to the
well-known SID S-1-5-32-545 when the group name will not resolve, as it will not
on localised Windows. It was then run with the source directory RENAMED AWAY, to
stand in for the share being unmounted, and it still moved the user's default -
which is the whole reason the script is staged to C:\ProgramData rather than run
from where it lives.

The guarantees against damage were re-checked rather than assumed: an empty
assignment changes nothing, an unreachable server changes nothing, -WhatIfOnly
leaves no queue, no task, no staged file and no registry value behind, and a
drifted queue is repointed IN PLACE with Set-Printer so whoever has it as their
default keeps it.

Not covered by any of this: the driver-staging path, which needs a real vendor
package rather than the class drivers a VM ships with.
2026-08-19 15:32:18 -04:00
cproudlock
1a5a1cd43d Correct a drifted print queue instead of leaving it wrong
A queue was matched by NAME alone, so a bay whose printer had moved, or whose
queue was built on a driver the site has since replaced, looked converged and
printed to the wrong device. Absence was fixed; drift was not.

Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 now repoints a queue whose port does not match the
address ShopDB holds, and swaps a queue built on the wrong driver. Both are
things ShopDB is authoritative about: where the printer IS, and what drives it.

CORRECTED IN PLACE with Set-Printer, never removed and recreated. The queue keeps
its name, its sharing, its permissions, and whoever has it as their default keeps
it - which is what makes this safe to run every cycle on a live floor. There is
still no removal code path in this script at all.

Two guards, because a repair that breaks a working printer is worse than drift:
the driver is only swapped when the wanted one is actually staged, and
-WhatIfOnly reports both kinds of correction without making either.

Verified on Windows against a queue that had the right name, the wrong port, the
wrong driver AND was the logged-on user's default: both fields were corrected and
the queue was still the default afterwards. The earlier no-op guarantees were
re-run and still hold - nothing assigned changes nothing, and an assignment with
no default leaves the user's own default alone.
2026-08-19 13:07:51 -04:00
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e2c45d33bc One printer picker for machines and PCs, and one default per asset
The assignment belongs to the MACHINE, and until now there was no way to set it
except the generic relationships card or the API - the form for the thing the
feature is about did not exist. MachineForm now carries the picker, and PCForm
uses the SAME component rather than its own copy: the PC's set overrides the
machine's, and two implementations of that would drift, with the two ends of an
override disagreeing being exactly the bug nobody would spot.

The shared picker also fixes what PCForm did on save. It wrote row at a time
through the generic relationship endpoints, which is a non-atomic reconcile: an
HTTP failure part way left a PC half-assigned with nothing recording what was
meant. It now calls the reconcile endpoint, which validates the default before
writing anything.

A relationship type can now say it allows one active row per asset
(relationshiptypes.issingular, migration 7d34), and defaultprinter says it.
Cardinality belongs to the type rather than the printers plugin: core's create
path is where every hand-made link passes, and the next type meaning "exactly
one" gets the rule for free. Setting a second default REPLACES the first instead
of refusing, because "make this the default" means that - and a card answering
409 would leave the user hunting for the old row.

Without it the schema was happy to hold two defaults: the unique constraint is
(source, target, type), so two different targets are two valid rows, and the
resolver takes the OLDEST - the new default silently lost. Proven by disabling
the new rule and watching the tests fail.

FOUND WHILE TESTING IN A BROWSER, and it was not mine: MachineForm read
.data.data off computersApi.listAll(), which resolves to the ARRAY - fetchAllPages
has already unwrapped every page. The whole parallel load threw into the catch,
so every dropdown on the machine edit form came up empty and the machine's own
values never loaded. A build cannot see this; only opening the page can.

GET /api/printers/assignments/for-asset/<id> returns an asset's OWN assignment,
without inheritance, because the editor must show what this asset's rows say -
otherwise a machine's printers appear ticked on the PC that inherits them and
unticking one silently creates an override.
2026-08-19 11:22:48 -04:00
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8cedf674fb Resolve a driver by vendor, and converge a bay's printers from ShopDB
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Two rows now cover 41 of 44 printers. printerdrivers could only bind a driver to
ONE modelnumberid, so the HP and Xerox universal drivers - which between them
cover almost the whole floor - would have needed 21 near-duplicate rows pointing
at the same package. That is a table nobody keeps true, and it is why 42 of 44
printers resolved no driver at all.

printerdrivers gains vendorid, and resolution runs most-specific-first: the
printer's model, then its vendor, then the pre-vendorid convention of matching
the vendor word in the driver's name so a site that populated the table before
the column existed does not silently lose every driver on upgrade. A row that
names a vendor is never matched by its text, because a mis-set vendor resolving
to the wrong package is worse than resolving to none.

Six rows now resolve 44 of 44 printers at the reference site, and the DesignJet
correctly takes its own driver over the HP universal one.

Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 is the client half: ask for-host, create the queues that
are missing, record the desired default. It NEVER removes a queue - a bad minute
from the API must not take printers away from a working bay - and it never
fetches a driver, because downloading 48 MB while somebody waits to print is the
wrong moment. The common scope stages those.

Apply-ShopdbDefaultPrinter.ps1 applies the default in the USER's context, which
is the only context that can: SYSTEM cannot set a per-user default for somebody
else. It also turns off "Let Windows manage my default printer", without which
Windows silently overwrites the choice the next time anyone prints elsewhere -
a fix that undoes itself within a day.

VALIDATED ON WINDOWS 11 AGAINST A LIVE SHOPDB, not only by tests. Printers were
assigned to a MACHINE; a PC controlling it, holding no rows of its own, created
both queues bound to the right universal drivers, recorded the default and set
it, and a second run changed nothing. The first attempt failed with
"Relationship types are not seeded - run: flask seed reference-data", which is
the deployment trap the plan predicted, caught by an explicit error rather than
silently resolving nothing.
2026-08-19 10:24:53 -04:00
cproudlock
0dc0ac13c8 Assign printers to a machine, and let the PC that drives it inherit them
Printers belong to the bay, not to the box currently driving it. The assignment
goes on the MACHINE asset and reaches whichever PC controls it, so a reimaged or
swapped PC comes back with the right printers and nothing had to be saved off the
old one. The asset register is the backup.

New relationship type usesprinter ("this printer is installed here"), beside the
existing defaultprinter ("which of them is the default"), both seeded and both
given a propagation rail through controls. The rails are consumed at READ time
only: the create-time fan-out skips directional through-types, and controls is
directional, so assigning a printer to a machine does not copy rows onto its PC.
That is what keeps own-beats-inherited possible.

Resolution for a PC is its OWN rows if it has any, otherwise one hop out along
controls to the machines it drives. Whole set at a time, not merged: a PC with
its own assignment is overriding the bay deliberately, and the UI has to say so
or a tech "fixing" a bay by editing the PC will shadow the machine's record and
wonder why they keep disagreeing.

GET /api/printers/for-host/<hostname> is what the convergence client asks every
cycle. Resolved by hostname because the collector upserts PCs by hostname and an
office PC has no machine number. An unknown host, a site without the computers
plugin, and nothing assigned all return an empty set - that is the client's
designed no-op and it must stay indistinguishable from "assigned nothing".

PUT /api/printers/assignments/for-asset/<id> reconciles the whole set in one
call. The endpoint was specified, documented and asserted by three tests, and
never written - the verification pass caught that, with four failures. It
validates the default BEFORE any write, so a rejected request changes nothing;
soft-deletes rows that went away; and REACTIVATES soft-deleted rows rather than
inserting, because the unique constraint spans inactive rows and a blind insert
after an unassign raises IntegrityError on MySQL while passing on SQLite.

One default per asset, enforced here because the schema cannot: the constraint is
(source, target, type), which accepts two different defaults quite happily. Two
active defaults are still reachable through the generic relationships endpoint,
where the oldest silently wins - recorded in the proposal as the next thing to
close.

printerdrivers gains drivername: the exact string the INF declares, which
Add-PrinterDriver matches on and nothing else. Deriving it by parsing INFs on
hundreds of bays is fragile; a human confirming it once is not.
2026-08-19 09:33:22 -04:00
cproudlock
03d0754fdc Stage printer drivers as a deployable set, for the common scope
Assigning a printer to a bay is useless if the bay cannot install it, and the
fleet data says why that mattered: 42 of 44 printers could not resolve a driver.
This is the delivery half - the drivers themselves, staged once per bay, so that
creating a queue never waits on a download.

Install-ShopdbPrinterDriver.ps1 does one driver: trust the package's signer, then
pnputil /add-driver, then Add-PrinterDriver. Install-ShopdbPrinterDrivers.ps1
does a site's whole set from drivers.json, and answers a compliance question with
-TestOnly, which is what makes it a clean DSC Script resource rather than a
fire-and-forget install.

Deliberately SEPARATE from assignment. Drivers are large, near-identical across a
fleet and change rarely; assignments are small, per-bay and change often. Staging
the set in the GE-Enforce common scope means the assignment client only ever
creates a queue - it never fetches a 48 MB package while somebody is waiting to
print, or discovers the share is unmounted at the worst moment.

THE SIGNER TRUST STEP IS THE WHOLE TRICK, and it took a real driver to find it.
certutil -addstore on the .cat file satisfied the Xerox package and failed every
HP INF with "The publisher of an Authenticode(tm) signed catalog has not yet been
established as trusted" - a coin toss, not a mechanism. The certificate is now
extracted with Get-AuthenticodeSignature and added to Trusted Publishers, for
every catalog under the package rather than the first INF's neighbours. On a
locked bay there is no prompt to answer, so the old failure was silent.

Verified on Windows against real packages, not by reading: all six drivers this
site needs install through the script, a second run is a no-op, a wrong driver
name fails with the names the package actually offers, and the DSC cycle behaves
- TestOnly exits 1 on a clean box, install exits 0, TestOnly then exits 0.

The packages themselves stay out of git: they are licensed vendor binaries, and
they belong on the share beside the other imaging payloads.

DEPLOYING-DRIVERS.md carries the GE-Enforce entry, the DSC configuration and the
Intune shape, plus the constraint that has cost a session before: the SFLD share
is mounted only during the enforcement cycle, so this runs as a manifest entry
and never as its own scheduled task.
2026-08-19 09:33:05 -04:00
cproudlock
f34b9ca710 Carry the level everywhere a position is drawn, and gate it per occurrence
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The hover mini-map said "This asset has a position (2835, 1410) but no level"
for every asset in the product. When 0.11.0 gave LocationMapTooltip a levelid
prop, NONE of its seven call sites were taught to pass one - printer, machine and
PC detail pages, the toner report, enforcement reports, the warranty chip and the
dashboard cards - so the component correctly reported a missing level and the
preview never drew. Two payloads behind those views also emitted mapx/mapy with
no level: the toner report and the enforcement report.

The map PDF export had the ORIGINAL bug still in it: it plotted every filtered
asset onto the sheet, so exporting the ground floor printed second-floor markers
on it. Worse than on screen, because nobody can correct a sheet once it has been
printed and carried onto the floor. It now exports only the level being viewed.

The legacy import loader sent mapleft/maptop with no level at three call sites.
That loader is the one still to run against production, and every marker it
created would have been undrawable. It now resolves the site's default level -
the legacy schema predates levels and has one floor plan, so that is what its
coordinates mean.

THE GATE MISSED ALL OF THIS because it asked whether a FILE mentions 'levelid',
not whether each position does: one module emitted 'mapx' six times and 'levelid'
once and passed. It now checks per occurrence, covers scripts/ as well as shopdb/
and plugins/, and fails any Vue file that binds tooltip coordinates without
:levelid. Both new rules were confirmed to fail the build against planted
violations before being relied on.

Printer QR labels: the asset number is no longer printed. A label now reads name
(8201-HPLaserJetPro), QR, FQDN, then IP. The name falls back to the assetnumber
because that is where sites actually keep it - every printer here has an empty
name field, so preferring the Windows queue name alone would have printed a blank
line on every label.
2026-08-18 09:36:45 -04:00
cproudlock
62f4a42210 fix: page past the 100-row cap in batch label sheets and asset pickers
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Follow-up to the application-picker fix. Three of these were already wrong on
data that exists today, not merely latent.

Batch label printing is the worst of them: AssetLabelBatch asked for 500
machines or PCs, got 100, and printed a sheet that looked complete. With 262
machines and 290 PCs in the catalogue that is a physically short run with no
error anywhere - the operator finds out at the label printer, or later at the
bay with no label on it. PrinterQRBatch, USBLabelBatch and PrintedPartsLabels
had the same shape and are fixed alongside it, before their tables cross 100
too.

MachineForm's "controls" PC dropdown offered the first 100 of 290, so a
machine could not be linked to a PC sorting late in the list. NetworkDeviceForm
had it for models, which are already past 100 - and the same file already
called modelsApi.listAll() correctly two lines away.

Adds listAll() to the machines, computers, printers, network, measuring-tools,
USB and printed-parts APIs, all delegating to fetchAllPages().

Still outstanding: callers of vendors, locations, business units and the type
catalogues that ask for more than 100. Those tables are all well under the cap
today, so they are correct for now and wrong the day they are not.
2026-08-17 14:10:08 -04:00
cproudlock
aede5ac621 Match the optional identifiers in every list's search box
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gaugelabreference and maintenancereference are collected on the form and shown
on the detail page for all five asset types, and no list's ?search= matched
either. Someone holding a physical tag could read it off the machine, type it
into the list they were already looking at, and get nothing back - while global
search, fixed in the previous commit, found it.

The clause is copy-pasted once per plugin, which is how all five came to omit
fields their own forms collect, so the test is one parametrized pass over all
five lists rather than five per-plugin tests that would drift the same way. It
also pins that widening the clause did not turn the box into a pass-through.

The api-inventory entries enumerate the fields each search matches, so all five
were stale the moment the queries changed; updated with the OpenAPI spec.

Not touched: the collector does not send either identifier, correctly - a
lab-assigned tag is not something an agent on a PC can discover. The legacy
import loader does not map them either, and the classic schema has no
gauge-named column to map from.
2026-08-17 13:16:22 -04:00
cproudlock
3324dbd91e Buildings and levels for the floor map, and make every identifier searchable
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The map was one picture of one floor. A second floor was added, the blueprint
changed size, and machines moved, so a position now records WHICH DRAWING its
coordinates belong to.

Buildings and levels (ADR-017). Each level owns its blueprint per theme and its
own native pixel size; assets.mapx/mapy are pixels of assets.levelid, not of the
site. A position whose level is unknown renders "level unknown" and is never
drawn on the default level, because a marker on the wrong floor plan looks
entirely correct while pointing at the wrong place.

Repositioning in bulk: filter by unplaced, needs-review or level, search, place,
confirm. Landmark recalibration solves the transform PER AXIS from landmark
pairs and never from image dimensions - the canvas grew taller without
rescaling, so a dimension-derived scale would stretch Y by 1.57 and be wrong
everywhere. It defaults to a dry run, reports what would land off the drawing,
snapshots before applying, and clears mapverifiedat because a transform is a
guess awaiting review. Snapshots restore, including the level and the review
state, and a restore snapshots first so an undo is undoable.

Search: gaugelabreference was matched only for measuring tools and
maintenancereference was matched nowhere at all, for any asset type, while
Settings happily offers both identifiers on machines and PCs. A tag an operator
is told to record has to be findable or it is a write-only field. USB devices
and printed items were unreachable from search entirely - neither is an asset,
so the generic asset search could not see them and no searcher existed; they
now match on serial, asset tag, label, bin code and gage-lab tag, honouring
isactive, with Settings toggles and result labels to match.

The retired-application rule was half a rule: GET /api/knowledgebase hid
articles whose topic application is retired while global search still returned
them and printed the retired application as the subject. A filter is only real
if every path that reaches the row applies it.

Contract to 0.20.0 (additive): Asset gained levelid and mapverifiedat, Location
gained levelid, and resolve_asset_position returns the levelid belonging to
whichever source supplied the coordinates. The five plugins that write a map
position are re-pinned. The install-list text format gained levelid as a NINTH
field, appended, because the shipped Pascal installer reads fields 0-7 by index.

That installer still compiles in one drawing's dimensions and bundles one
blueprint, so its map is accurate for the default level only; /api/maplevels is
deliberately unauthenticated so it can read both at runtime once rebuilt.
Recorded in PRINTER-INSTALLER.md section 6 along with the other known gaps.

Migration 7d33 converts an existing single-map site into one building and one
default level carrying the old map_* settings, then assigns every placed asset
and location to it. Nothing moves on screen. Old settings rows are kept so a
rollback still finds them. Verified end to end on MySQL 5.6 from a
production-shaped database.
2026-08-17 12:55:51 -04:00
cproudlock
c648bdf560 labels: one module knows how to draw a code, seven views stop guessing
Three core pages and four plugin pages each imported qrcode and jsbarcode
directly, and each carried its own answer to the same questions: what margin,
what width, which error correction, how big a module must be before a scanner
can read it. The answers had already drifted - margin 0 in one place and 2 in
another, width 150 against 160 - and on a label that is the difference between
a sticker that scans and one that does not.

frontend/src/utils/codes.js owns it now: the label-stock presets, the quiet-zone
and margin defaults, CODE128 with no printed value, and the printer-resolution
arithmetic that only the Tech Tools generator had. A view passes what is
specific to its own label and nothing else - MachineBadge still asks for CODE39,
because the badge readers predate the shop-floor scanners and decode nothing
else, and that is exactly the kind of thing a call site should say out loud.

views/print/qrLogo.js is folded in rather than left as a second half-shared
helper that only some of the pages reached into.

The check script now fails a build that imports either library outside that
module. Without it this re-forks within a month: the next label page starts by
copying the nearest existing one, which is how it happened the first time.

Tests cover the part no amount of looking at a screen verifies - a QR that
looks fine at 96 dpi on a monitor can be unreadable at 203 dpi on half-inch
stock.
2026-08-14 14:03:49 -04:00
cproudlock
dfbc12a172 printers: part numbers for the HP 3201 / 3301 series
A 3201dw is monitored and alerts correctly - Zabbix reports its cartridge names
and levels straight off the printer - but the Toner Report had no reorder chip
for it, because part numbers come only from modelsupplies and no family matched.
lookupsupplies returns [] for a model with no rows, so the printer showed levels
with nothing to order.

Adds the 218 family: 218A standard and 218X high yield in all four colours,
matched on 3201 and 3301 so the MFP siblings are covered by the same entry.
Part numbers and yields cross-checked against three independent sources rather
than inferred from the series - a wrong toner number means someone orders a
cartridge that does not fit, which is worse than the blank chip it replaces.

No drum or waste unit: none is listed as a separately orderable part for this
series, so the family is toners only.
2026-08-13 13:45:45 -04:00
cproudlock
3d83806135 Make the toner forecast an order, not a table
The report answers a purchasing question, and it was answering it in seven
columns, two tables and a rowspan. What someone actually needs from it is a
short list of what to buy.

So it opens with that list, grouped by part number with a quantity. Two
cartridges of the same part in different printers is a quantity of two, which
is the number an order needs and the one a per-printer table made the reader
count by hand. It covers what is empty plus what goes within a fortnight -
ordering only what is already empty means running empty. There is a copy
button, because it ends up pasted into a mail.

Below it the cartridges sit in urgency bands rather than in one long list
sorted by a number. The question is which pile a thing is in, and a pile that
is empty is worth seeing as empty. Everything past "empty" starts collapsed;
the order list above already covers the same ground in a tenth of the height.

The row is a cartridge now, not a printer, so it can carry its own part number,
its own level bar and its own countdown. Nesting supplies under a printer meant
opening a printer to find out whether anything on it needed doing.

Cartridges with no part mapped are counted on a single line rather than given
one each. They cannot be dropped, since that would quietly shorten the order,
and they cannot be ordered from here either - the job they represent is
mapping them, which is one job however many there are.

Bands and the order horizon are decided server-side, next to the arithmetic
that produces them, so a heading cannot disagree with what got added to the
list.

Checked against a fleet of 43 dev printers with real part mappings, driven by
a stub Zabbix - live Zabbix is not reachable from the dev box.
2026-08-13 13:08:39 -04:00
cproudlock
7d66551622 Forecast from the right end of the window, and from the level shown
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Four defects stacked into one nonsense report: cartridges at 20% claiming four
days, cartridges at 1% claiming weeks.

The root cause is a Zabbix API detail. `limit` caps the whole result set rather
than each item, and the query sorted ascending, so the cap kept the OLDEST rows
in the window. A four-cartridge printer polled every five minutes writes over
100k readings in 90 days; the forecast was fitted to the first few days of that
and nothing since. Every rate was real and every rate described a cartridge
thrown away three months ago. Nothing in the output looks wrong, which is why
it needed pinning in a test rather than a comment.

A 90-day burn rate does not need every individual poll, so a long window now
reads hourly trends - the table meant for this, a tenth of the rows, and kept
longer. Raw history serves short windows and any item a site keeps no trends
for. Both are fetched newest-first with the budget scaled per item.

Second, the countdown was computed from the last stored reading while the level
displayed was the live one, so the two could disagree by a whole cartridge. The
live level is now what the countdown divides. A live level far above the stored
run means it was swapped since the last reading, and that is reported as a
replacement rather than as a collapse in the burn rate.

Third, at or below 5% a cartridge reads as empty rather than as a slow drain.
At 1% losing a tenth of a point a day the arithmetic says ten days. The printer
is out of toner, and it is the first thing to order.

Fourth, the days-left column spanned the printer's rows, so the printer's
soonest figure was printed beside every supply it had. That alone accounts for
the shape of both complaints: a healthy cartridge wearing its neighbour's
deadline, and an empty one wearing a number that belonged to nothing on its row.

Also fixes float-typed supplies vanishing from any printer that also had an
integer-typed one - they live in different history tables and the fetch stopped
at whichever answered first.

Not verified against live data: Zabbix is not reachable from the dev box.
2026-08-13 10:54:23 -04:00
cproudlock
d109314123 Forecast when a printer runs out, and count what it has been through
The toner report says what is empty now. It could not say what to order, and
nothing recorded how fast anything drains - every level read was cached for
five minutes and then discarded.

Zabbix has been keeping the history all along; we simply never asked. One
history.get gives both answers, because a cartridge only goes DOWN while it is
in use: a rise is a replacement. Count the rises and you have how many
cartridges a printer has been through; fit a slope to the readings SINCE the
last rise and you have days-to-empty. Fitting across a replacement averages a
spent cartridge with a fresh one and describes neither.

Sorted by days left, which is the point. A cartridge at 60% dropping 5% a day
needs ordering before one sitting at 8% that has not moved in months, and a
level-sorted list ranks those backwards.

It refuses to guess. Too few readings, a level that has not moved enough - many
printers report in 10% steps and sit on a plateau for a fortnight - or a recent
replacement each produce no estimate and say which. Those printers are listed
separately rather than sorted in as 0 or as 999, since a printer without an
estimate is neither urgent nor safe. Estimates show what they rest on, because
"9 days from 21 days of readings" and "9 days from 2 readings" are not the same
claim.

A separate report card, not an extension of the toner report: that one is an
exceptions list a tech acts on today, this is an ordering view read monthly,
and the history query is heavier than the live read it would have slowed down.

The analysis is pure arithmetic over a list of readings, so the 14 tests cover
the noise wobble, the plateau, the swap, junk rows and division by zero without
needing Zabbix. Zabbix being unreachable is reported as such rather than
rendering an empty table that reads as "nothing is due".
2026-08-12 11:45:40 -04:00
cproudlock
4d807ccb4b toner report: the part to order, and where the printer is
The report exists to answer "what needs replacing and where do I get it",
and it was answering neither. The part numbers were already in the
lowsupplies payload and simply never rendered; a chip per part now shows
them, with capacity tier and page yield on hover, since a model can list
several tiers for one colour.

Asset # and Location columns are gone. Location is replaced by the
floor-plan preview the asset pages already use, hung off the printer name
via its mapx/mapy.

The IP is now the site's FQDN (printer_hostname_template, built from the
IP exactly as PrinterForm does) and links to the printer's own web page in
a new tab - the report is a worklist, and losing your place in it to visit
one printer means finding your row again. The raw IP stays on hover.

Cartridge names were ellipsised inside a fixed 120px column, hiding the
one thing being reordered. The supplies cell is a grid with a max-content
name column, so names show in full and still line up across a printer's
rows.

CSV and emailed exports follow the screen, with one row per part number so
the result is a copy-pasteable order list.
2026-08-12 11:43:25 -04:00
cproudlock
94d8d6c9b6 dashboard: numbers that agree, a map on hover, wider cards
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"All assets 704" sat beside "all assets in use 737", and both were correct
about different populations. The totals summed five specific asset types and
subtracted dual-bay secondaries; the status counts took every asset row of any
type with no collapse, so USB devices and hidden secondary bays inflated one
side of a comparison the layout invites. Status is now counted over exactly the
same assets the totals describe.

Warranty rows fell back to asset.name when the covered asset had no hostname,
and an asset's name is usually the MACHINE's descriptive name - which is how a
column meant to identify a PC ended up showing a machine. Hostname, else the
asset number, never the name. The machine number loses its label too: the row
is hostname, machine, state, and "machine 3015" spends a word on what position
already conveys.

Printer names now carry the floor-plan preview on hover, the same
LocationMapTooltip the printer's own page uses - a location name tells you the
room, the map tells you where to walk. Declared as map.maphover on the card, so
any card with coordinates gets it; a row without them shows a plain link rather
than being dropped.

Cards are four across rather than five. At five columns a row holding a
hostname, a machine number and a state truncates on exactly the rows that
matter. auto-fit, so two cards fill the width instead of leaving empty tracks.

Not covered by a test: the count fix. I started one and it was interrupted, and
I have not gone back for it - the assertion worth having is that in-use can
never exceed the total.
2026-08-11 16:27:14 -04:00