Chapter 5. August 2024
5.1. Product-wide updates
5.1.1. Published blogs and resources
- Customize RHEL images with RHEL system roles and Insights image builder by Brian Smith (August 14, 2024)
- Save, edit, and share blueprints in Insights image builder by Terry Bowling (August 16, 2024)
5.2. Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.2.1. advisor
Recommended guidance for the End of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) period
In light of the official end of the Extended Lifecycle Support (ELS) for RHEL 6, it is strongly recommended that all Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 systems upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. This is necessary to obtain full support. No other recommendations are available for these systems. For more information, see the following:
Issue prevention recommendations
We released 9 new recommendations to prevent issues across various Red Hat Enterprise Linux system components. This includes issues such as firmware, kernel, SSSD, RAID5, in-place upgrade, NIC firmware, and grub2, which can cause system failures, crashes, or other challenges:
- System fails to boot due to the known issue in BIOS
- System boot failure occurs when the grub file is empty or missing
- Kernel crash occurs on the CephFS client due to a known bug in the running kernel
- SSSD enters a failed state
- RAID5 md device hang occurs
- Leapp fails to upgrade RHEL 7 systems to RHEL 8 when the grub is not configured correctly
- Multicast packet amplification
- Grub2 modification requires symbolic link
5.2.2. drift
As of September 30 2024, the drift service, provided in Red Hat Insights for RHEL, will be removed from the product. For more information about the discontinuation of the drift service, contact: Red Hat customer service
5.2.3. Insights image builder
Harness the power of image builder
Image builder has a convenient landing page with an overview, interactive labs, links to documentation, blog posts and videos. Learn how this feature can help you ensure consistent provisioning and deployment across all environments.
Manage images with the blueprints feature
Insights image builder now enables you to alter an image with the blueprints feature. This feature is available in developer preview mode and is displayed in the left sidebar. You can save, edit, and download blueprints to share with colleagues.
First boot scripts feature
The first boot scripts feature is now in full production support mode. For more information, see the following:
5.2.4. inventory
Notifications and integrations events in inventory
The inventory service now triggers New system registered and System deleted events. These occur when a system is newly registered in inventory or removed. These events are triggered both manually and automatically. You can manually trigger these alerts when you add a new system to your inventory. Events might be automatically triggered when a system’s state changes.
For more information about system states and staleness and deletion, see the following:
You can configure responses to these events for each account. You can send emails to groups of users, if they allow subscriptions in their user preferences. You can also forward these events to third-party applications such as Splunk, ServiceNow, Event-Driven Ansible, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat. You can also forward these events by using a generic webhook. For more information, see the following resources:
These new events are particularly useful for driving automation and integrating Red Hat Insights into your operational workflows. They can automatically launch compliance or malware detection checks, validate systems assignments to Workspaces, update external configuration management database (CMDB) records, or continuously monitor your Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
