# Session Log - 2026-08-20

Agent: Claude Code
Model: Claude Sonnet 5 (claude-sonnet-5)
P4 identity used: bot_Claude_Anthropic (except where noted)

## Summary

New day, picking up from `SessionLog-2026-08-19.md`. Most of today's concrete
work happened in `//BattleSchool/Gen7` (PPN server) -- see
`//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-20.md` for full detail. Hit and
fixed a self-inflicted P4CONFIG environment mistake, confirmed an unrelated
change the user made directly in `//p4-sdp/dev_rebrand`, and documented a
P4CONFIG convention split between the local Mac and the deployed lab
environment. Working toward the user running a full manual `lab qa_build`
test.

## Where Things Stand

- **Task 1 (SDP Installer Test Suite): complete.**
- **Task 2 (prepare SDP-QA-Gen7): in progress.** Yesterday's `lab qa`/
  `lab qa_build` split and Lab Developer Guide are done. Today added the
  P4CONFIG-convention documentation and connected `sync_student_files.sh` to
  the lab-development checklist. Next: confirm the `qa_build` deliverables
  are actually deployed to the live lab hosts before a manual test run.
- **New, not started**: Gen7-to-main promotion audit/process (tasks #23/#24).
- Deferred per explicit user direction: "We've Moved" notices (task #11),
  `cli_tests.cfg` test-coverage gap analysis (task #14), fleet
  runtime-variation speculation (task #15).

## Timeline

1. **Self-inflicted P4CONFIG mistake, diagnosed by the user.** Needed to
   check on a change the user mentioned in `//p4-sdp/dev_rebrand` (Public
   Depot, `bot_Claude_Anthropic` identity) but hit "Perforce password
   (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset." even after a fresh ticket renewal. Set
   `P4CONFIG` to an absolute path by habit (carried over from an unrelated
   tool call), which -- on this local Mac's deliberately-layered P4CONFIG
   setup -- silently dropped the correct `P4PORT` and landed on some other
   server (`p4 info` showed an unexpected `ServerID: master-1666`). The user
   caught this immediately from the symptom description. Fixed by using the
   bare filename form (`P4CONFIG=.p4config.bot_Claude_Anthropic`) instead.

2. **Confirmed the unrelated `dev_rebrand` change**: Public Depot change
   `33203` (the user, direct submit) -- `CheckCaseTrigger.py`'s logging check
   changed from `DEBUG` to `WARNING` to avoid huge log volumes on big
   commits. No action needed; already in sync locally, and per the user this
   is intentionally `dev_rebrand`-only for now (small-team dynamics --
   `dev_rebrand` is the branch that actually gets tested today, with an
   eventual `dev_rebrand` → `dev` → `main` → `r26.1` promotion chain).

3. **Documented the P4CONFIG convention split** (see
   `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-20.md` for full detail):
   bare filename on this local Mac (layered configs) vs. absolute path in
   the deployed BSW lab environment (self-contained configs, e.g.
   `/root/.p4config.ppn.p4bsw`). Updated both `ai_dev_support/P4Info.md`
   here (changes `33204`, `33205`) and `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/AGENTS.md`
   (change `2762733`) with cross-references to each other.

4. **Connected `sync_student_files.sh` to lab development.** The user
   flagged this existing (already-documented, in `ai/BSW_P4_Data_Sources.md`)
   mechanism -- it's how `data/<LabId>/*.html` changes actually reach
   students on `bsw-lab-ui`, deliberately hidden from their view of version
   control. Used it to fix a vague step in yesterday's new
   `docs/BSW-LabDeveloperGuide.adoc` checklist. Changes `2762737`/`2762738`.

5. **Got direct SSH access to the live SDP-QA-Gen7 lab working** and used it
   to deploy and verify readiness for the `qa_build` milestone: ran
   `sync_student_files.sh` on `bsw-lab-ui` and `p4 sync` on `p4c-bos-01`'s
   BSW Lab Engine workspace, then confirmed `p4d` health, the insitu client's
   stream binding, ticket validity, and the presence of `run_all_tests.sh`
   and its fixtures. Deliberately did not run the actual prep/test scripts
   myself -- that's the user's milestone to trigger. Full detail (including
   an incidentally-discovered, benign staleness gap on `p4-02`..`p4-05`) in
   `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-20.md`.

6. **Documented BSW fleet navigation and Lab Engine internals** in
   `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/BSW-Lab-Reference.md` (change `2762740`): the
   `s1`-`s5` fleet-navigation aliases (available as `student`/`root` on
   `bsw-lab-ui` and as `perforce`/`root` on any P4 server), direct
   any-machine SSH access, the `p4bswd` service's request-handling protocol,
   and precisely when `lab_engine` runs `bsw_rsync.sh` (only on a full
   baseline reset, not on every `lab <LabId>` call) -- which also fully
   explains item 5's staleness finding as expected, not a bug.

7. **User corrected two claims from item 6**: `p4e-syd-04` does have its own
   public IP after all (all 6 machines do, assigned per-lab-instance, not
   fixed by role), and `bsw_rsync.sh`'s bos-01-only scope is because bos-01
   is the only P4 server host with its own PPN P4 workspace for BSW software.
   Fixed in Gen7 (change `2762742`); looked up and recorded the standing
   lab's actual public IPs for all 6 hosts in
   `//BattleSchool/Gen7/docs/SDP-QA-LabEnvironment.adoc` (change `2762741`).
   Also caught and flagged a process mistake: change `2762741` accidentally
   bundled the Gen7 session log in with those `docs/` changes (a bare
   `p4 submit` submits the whole default changelist) -- no content harm, but
   worth naming files explicitly on submit going forward. Full detail in
   `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-20.md`.

8. **New idea from the user, executed same session**: replaced item 7's IP
   table with SSH wrapper scripts instead --
   `//BattleSchool/Gen7/sdp_qa/ssh-p4-01.sh` through `ssh-p4-05.sh` and
   `ssh-bsw-lab-ui.sh`, matching the SDP Installer Test Suite fleet's own
   `ssh-*.sh` wrapper style. Each hardcodes its host's PEM/user/port/current
   IP; tested all 6 live before committing. Gen7 changes `2762743`
   (scripts + docs update) and `2762744` (ai/ cross-reference, submitted
   separately this time to avoid repeating the mixed-changelist mistake).

9. **Ran `lab qa_build` for the first time** (agent's first pass, per the
   user -- they planned their own manual repeat afterward). Completed in
   170 seconds; correctly caught and reported a real test failure (16 of 57
   `run_cli_tests.sh` tests). Traced all 16 to exactly 4 distinct root
   causes -- most significantly, `bruno` (a test super-user) never gets a
   password set before he's first used, due to a `cli_tests.cfg` group-
   ordering issue.

10. **Chased root cause A down to an actual fix, with the user's steering.**
    They recalled the established `dm.user.resetpassword`/`setinitialpasswd`
    fix pattern from `//p4-sdp/dev_rebrand` changes 33170/33171/33174 (this
    project's own earlier P4D 2026.1 Secure-By-Default work) and asked to
    check if the same override would help here. It wasn't quite that simple
    live-testing showed the configurables don't retroactively un-flag an
    already-flagged password. Tracing further found the real issue:
    `/opt/perforce/.dev/sdp` on `p4c-bos-01` (what `install_sdp.sh` actually
    installs from during a lab reset) was a plain classic client predating
    the DVCS-clone convention entirely, so it never had the 33170+ fixes at
    all. Separately (and independently) discovered the ITS's own DVCS clone
    at `/opt/perforce/.dev/bin` had been cloned from the *old*, deprecated
    Classic path (`//guest/tom_tyler/sw/main/install_sdp/dev/bin/...`) --
    confirmed via `p4 remote -o origin` -- not `//test-install_sdp/dev`.

    Both re-cloned fresh (as a new `bot_SDP_QA` identity, credentials at
    `/opt/perforce/.dev/.p4passwd.bot_SDP_QA`) via the correct remote specs
    (`test-install_sdp_dev`, `p4-sdp_dev_rebrand`); confirmed the
    `dm.user.resetpassword` fix is now present in the fresh SDP clone.
    Bonus: `swap_source.sh` (from this project) is already hostname-aware
    for `p4c-bos-01.p4demo.com` and handles both `p4-sdp/*` and
    `test-install_sdp/*` stream swaps there -- so the user's new "give the
    BSW test suite the same stream-swap capability as the ITS" ask turned
    out to already be satisfied by this same script, no new work needed.
    Full detail, including the exact diagnostic commands, in
    `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/session-log-2026-08-20.md`; documented in
    `//BattleSchool/Gen7/ai/BSW_P4_Data_Sources.md` (change `2762819`).

    Deliberately stopped short of re-running `lab qa_build` to confirm the
    fix holds end-to-end -- the user wanted to call it a night once both
    directories were re-cloned.

## Wrap-Up

Session ending for the day per the user. `lab qa_build` ran once (agent's
first pass) and surfaced real, well-understood failures; root cause A
(`bruno`'s password) is fixed at the source via two re-clones on
`p4c-bos-01`, but not yet re-verified end-to-end. Next session: re-run
`lab qa_build` (agent or the user's own manual pass) to confirm, then work
through root causes B/C/D if A's fix doesn't already clear the picture.