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rcourtman b7049ff778 Raise Proxmox disk temperature alerts under the per-type policy (#2680)
**Stacked on #2675** (TrueNAS disk temperature alerts by disk type).
Merge that first; this branch contains its commit.

## Problem

A Proxmox physical disk that only the node's own sensors report never
raised a temperature alert:

- `CheckDiskHealth` judges health and wearout only;
- unified evaluation types TrueNAS physical disks, not PVE ones.

So Physical Disks could read a disk **Running Hot** under the per-type
thresholds while alerts stayed silent. Whether a disk alerted depended
on whether a Pulse agent ran on the node: agent-covered disks alert
through `CheckHost` at the same thresholds. #1347 shows users look for
disk temperature thresholds in the Proxmox tabs.

## Change

- **`CheckProxmoxDiskTemperature`**
(`internal/alerts/proxmox_disk_temperature.go`) raises a
`diskTemperature` metric alert under the disk's existing PVE alert
reference. It is judged by the disk temperature policy: the disk type's
`DiskTempByType` entry under the agent Disk Temp default, which switches
it off for every type. The alert carries the disk's serial, WWN and
`diskType`, like the health and wearout alerts.
- **One alert per disk.** `mergeHostAgentSMARTIntoDisks` marks a disk
that a still-reporting linked agent lists in its SMART report
(`AgentSMARTReported`, internal, never serialized). That disk is the
agent's: `CheckHost` alerts on it, and an open PVE alert closes with
`moved_to_agent`. A lapsed agent owns nothing, so the node's own current
readings keep alerting while its agent is silent.
- **Holds and clears.** Only a reading collected this poll is judged
(`diskinventory.TemperatureCollected`), so a retained value holds the
alert. An excluded device, or a switched-off policy, closes it.
- **Stability.** A new `proxmox-disk` alert delay defaults to 5s, so
warnings wait the same 300s noisy-gauge window as agent and TrueNAS disk
temperatures. Critical readings bypass it.
- **Config save.** `reevaluateActiveAlertsLocked` re-judges the alert
per disk type. Without this it would fall through to guest thresholds,
which have no disk temperature, and resolve on every save. An alert
without a recorded type uses the lowest per-type trigger.
- **History.** `ProxmoxPhysicalDiskAlertIdentifiers` lists the new
`<ref>::metric-threshold:diskTemperature` identifier, so resource
history owns its rows by recorded hardware identity, as #2646 does for
health and wearout.
- **Copy.** The Agents "Disk temperature by type" card says it covers
agent, TrueNAS and Proxmox disks.

## Evidence

Private mock stack (8 PVE nodes) with a local-only overlay pinning PVE
disk readings:

| Disk | Physical Disks | Alert |
|---|---|---|
| pve1 NVMe 63°C | Healthy | none |
| pve2 SATA 56°C | Running Hot | warning, trigger 55, after the 300s
window |
| pve3 NVMe 72°C | Running Hot | warning, trigger 70, after the 300s
window |
| pve3 SAS 63°C | Healthy | none |
| pve3 SATA 66°C | Running Hot | critical at once |

The alert card reads: "Samsung 870 EVO 1TB (/dev/nvme2) · Temperature ·
Temperature 66°C, above the 55°C alert level · Clears once it drops to
50°C or lower and stays there for 5 minutes."

## Tests

- `internal/alerts/alerts_test.go`:
  - the policy (per type, raised trigger);
- ownership with `moved_to_agent`, the hold without a reading,
exclusion, the off switch;
  - the stability window;
  - re-judging on save, including the lowest-trigger hold;
  - history identifiers.
- `internal/monitoring/physical_disk_roundtrip_test.go`: the marker for
reporting agents only (not a lapsed one), the SMART fallback path, and
that `checkPhysicalDiskAlerts` passes collected readings, ownership and
exclusion.
- `internal/unifiedresources/store_test.go`: a temperature alert row is
owned by its disk and still found by a read by its reference.
- `internal/models/deepcopy_test.go`: the marker survives cloning and
stays out of JSON.
- `ThresholdsTable.test.tsx`: the card copy.
- Ten wiring points were mutation-checked (marker, lease condition,
collected reading, ownership, exclusion, re-judge branch, lowest
trigger, resolution, history identifier); each removal fails a test.

## Second opinion

- Fixed: an offline agent's retained SMART rows kept ownership, so
neither side alerted while the agent was silent. Ownership now needs a
reporting lease.
- Kept, documented in `alerts.md`: on the first poll after an agent is
newly linked to a disk with an open PVE alert, both alerts can be open
until the next disk poll. This is the same window as the node-to-agent
usage alert handover.

## Not in this PR

- Like the health and wearout alerts, a disk that leaves the inventory
keeps its temperature alert until the 24-hour stale sweep.
- Per-host Disk Temp overrides do not reach PVE-only disks, which have
no agent host.
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