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rcourtman c5416b6800 Alert on the Unraid temperature an agent disk shows (#2701)
Stacked on #2698 (which sits on #2694, #2685 and #2679); this PR's own
change is the top commit, "Alert on the Unraid temperature an agent disk
shows", plus a merge of main for an alerts.md anchor both touched.

## Why

A host agent's physical disk can show a temperature that only the host's
Unraid inventory reports:

- a SMART row whose smartctl probe returned no temperature takes its
Unraid row's reading (`HostSMARTDiskTemperature`), and
- a disk only the inventory lists, such as a `--disk-exclude` match, is
built from its Unraid row alone (`HostUnraidDiskTemperature`).

Physical Disks (Temp cell and the `Running Hot` verdict, "at or above
its alert threshold") and Patrol judge that reading against the alert
disk temperature policy, but `CheckHost` only read the SMART row's own
field. A disk could read as at its alert threshold while no alert fired.

Unraid's own warning/critical disk temperature notifications do not make
this redundant: Pulse already alerts on the smartctl readings and array
state of the same hosts, which Unraid also notifies on.

## What changes

- `unifiedresources.HostDiskTemperatureReadings(host)` lists the reading
each of a host's disks shows, built with the registry's own adapters:
one per SMART row the registry ingests, then one per Unraid row whose
disk key no SMART row carries (the same rule as the history writer in
#2698).
- `CheckHost` judges those readings:
- SMART rows keep their `agent:<host>/disk_temp:<device>` resource IDs.
An inventory-only disk uses its block device token, which is the ID a
plain Linux SMART row for that device uses, so a later SMART reading
continues the same alert.
- Per-type thresholds and host overrides use the disk type the disk
shows.
- Only a reading collected now fires or resolves, so a spun-down disk
holds its alert.
- When conflicting serials put two disks on one device, its alert judges
the reading that stands highest against its own type's threshold.
- An inventory-only disk matching the agent's `--disk-exclude` raises
nothing, and an alert it raised before the exclusion resolves on the
next report. This matches the documented exclusion from monitoring and
how linked Proxmox hosts already treat excluded disks.
  - Absence cleanup still runs only on a non-empty SMART list.

## Verification

- New alert tests in `internal/alerts/host_unraid_lifecycle_test.go`
cover: the fallback, an inventory-only disk, an empty SMART list, two
disks on one device (also of different types), a controller member under
another device label, standby, exclusion, disk-type and host-override
thresholds, holds, handover to a SMART reading, departure, and the
exclusion clear.
  - Each fails on the previous `host.go`.
- Removing any guard (exclusion skip, exclusion clear, disk type,
collected-now, threshold ranking) fails its own test.
- `TestHostDiskTemperatureReadingsMatchTheDisksTheRegistryShows`
compares every reading with the disk the live registry ingests,
including conflicting serials, a virtual device and a MegaRAID member
Unraid lists under its block device.
- `go test ./internal/alerts/... ./internal/unifiedresources/...` passes
on the merged tree, as do the Unraid/SMART/temperature tests in
`internal/monitoring`.
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