Records the agreed plan to combine the two cards into one with two collapsible sections, as VISUAL GROUPING ONLY. The two tables cannot share rows: Storage is per volume, Disk health is per physical device, and one drive can back several volumes or none the operator sees. Stating that explicitly so this is never mistaken for the Phase 1 mapped-drive merge, where two sources described the same drive and the worse status won.
Deferred to its own phase because the tabs render type emits label/value fields only and has no table path, so this means extending the renderer every plugin uses. Bundling that with the Phase 2 telemetry work would turn a UI regression and a telemetry regression into one commit to bisect.
Also scopes the not nested cards density rule to the header block it was written for, having checked it does not block this.
Records why there are two sources and why they are not reconciled, so the next person does not simplify the ATA SMART path back in and silently blind the fleet on NVMe hardware.
Also notes that diskhealth is per physical device and is not the same list as disks, and that a null predictfailure is unknown rather than healthy.
w32time is Stopped on provisioned endpoints, confirmed on more than one box, so w32tm returns 0x80070426 fleet-wide and there is no offset to read. It appears to be stopped by policy after provisioning. Collecting it would return null everywhere and give us an alerting signal that can never fire, which is worse than not having one: a permanently-null health check reads as no problem found.
Implemented first, then removed - collector, both parsers, the process helper, and the contract field. Kept one note in the notes file: parse the offset by label, not by first value ending in s, because w32tm prints Root Delay and Root Dispersion in the same format beforehand and a first-match parser reports network latency as clock skew. That bug was written and caught here.
Windows Update history is pinned rather than cut. The COM update searcher is slow, but the blocking concern is that some endpoints host COM server applications where driving it risks interfering with collections or the hosted application. Needs its own investigation. The Phase 4 card that depended on it is marked blocked so the two do not drift apart.
Windows exposes mapped drives twice and the two views disagree. Captured on one
box at one moment, same two mappings: Get-SmbMapping reported OK for both while
net use reported Disconnected and Reconnecting. Collecting only Get-SmbMapping -
the nicer, more structured one - would have reported a healthy Q: on a machine
whose Q: was down, which is the exact failure this telemetry exists to catch.
So collect both and keep them apart. The probe emits netuse and smbmapping as
separate keys and does not reconcile them; the disagreement is the signal and
normalising it in the agent would discard it before anyone could see it.
The server merges by drive letter and shows the WORSE of the two. A drive that
either source calls broken is broken for the operator, and a drive neither
source gave a status for renders as Unknown rather than blank - an unannotated
row reads as healthy, so a failed check would present as a working drive.
Drives seen by only one source are kept, not dropped: Get-SmbMapping is absent
on some builds and session types, and requiring agreement would silently hide
every mapped drive on those machines.
No active reachability testing. Windows already knows the status, so touching
each share would be wasted work and would reintroduce the hang risk the bounded
probe exists to avoid.
The probe stays unelevated in the operator's session. UAC token separation
gives an elevated context a different mapped-drive table, often empty, so
elevating this later would quietly empty the card.
Adds a commented-out remap_drive seam in the command catalog. Not implemented,
but placed so the next person finds the user-session and elevation constraints
before writing it rather than after.
The merge logic has no test coverage yet; the docstring names the three
behaviours that must not be broken.
