Chapter 6. Assessing system-upgrade readiness with the pre-upgrade analysis task

Procedure

1. Go to Red Hat Insights > Operations > Advisor > Topics > In-place upgrade. A table that lists all of the recommended remediations affecting the success of in-place upgrades displays.

2. Use the filter and sort options at the top of the table to narrow down the list of recommendations.

   1. To filter the recommendations, use the search bar or select a specific item from the dropdown menu.
   2. To sort the recommendations, click the column headers such as Name, Remediation type, Systems, or Total risk.

3. Choose a recommendation with a Remediation type of Playbook.

   Note: You can tell which recommendations have playbooks available by viewing and sorting the Remediation type column.

   

4. For each recommendation with an available playbook, take the following actions:

   1. Click the recommendation to see more information about the issue, including the systems that are affected.

   2. Check the box next to each system you want to add to the playbook and click Plan remediation.

      

   3. In the pop-up, select Create a new playbook and enter a name for the playbook, then click Next.
   4. Optional: Alternatively, you can add the resolution for the selected systems to an existing playbook.
   5. Review the included systems and click Next.

   6. Review the included recommendation. You can click the carat next to the recommendation name to see included systems.

      Important

      Some resolutions require the system to reboot. Auto reboot is not enabled by default but you can enable it by clicking Turn on autoreboot above the list of recommendations.

   7. Click Submit. The final pop-up view confirms that the playbook was created successfully. You can select to return to the application or open the playbook.
5. Find the playbook in Automation Toolkit > Remediations and click it to open it.
6. The playbook includes a list of actions. Select the actions to execute by checking the box next to each one.
7. Click Execute playbook to run the playbook on the specified systems.
8. On the pop-up, click the Execute playbook on systems button. The playbook runs on those systems.

Procedure

1. Go to Red Hat Insights > Operations > Advisor > Topics > In-place upgrade to view recommendations affecting the success of in-place upgrades.

2. Choose a recommendation with the word "Manual" in the *Remediation tab, which indicates that the issue requires manual remediation.

   

3. For each recommendation requiring a manual remediation, take the following actions:

   1. Click on the recommendation to open the recommendation-details page, which shows affected systems.

      

   2. Click on a system name.
   3. Pick a recommendation to resolve manually and click on the carat to view the Steps to resolve the recommendation on the system.
   4. Perform the resolution steps on the system.
   5. Repeat steps b, c, and d for each affected system.