Chapter 2. September 2024
2.1. Product-wide updates
2.1.1. Published blogs and resources
- Blog: Managing image mode for RHEL with Red Hat Insights by Shane McDowell (September 17, 2024)
- Blog: InterSystems IRIS operations made easy with Red Hat Insights by Jaylin Zhou (September 20, 2024)
- Partnership: IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2024
2.2. Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2.2.1. Advisor
New recommendations
Red Hat Insights' advisor service now detects and recommends solutions for critical issues. Here is a list of newly released solutions:
- Leapp fails to upgrade RHEL 7 systems to RHEL 8 when the openssl11-libs package is installed from EPEL repository
- Kdump cannot save vmcore via remote target when the accelerated networking NIC is enabled on Azure Hyper-V systems
- The performance of the Satellite server degrades when there are too many host facts stored in the PostgreSQL database
- The GFS2 filesystem failed to stop because the default 60-second stop operation timeout is short
- Tasks accessing the NFS filesystem hang due to a known issue in the kernel
- The system experiences decreased security due to an important security vulnerability in CUPS
- NFS clients slow down when NFS4 server is running with delegation enabled due to a known bug in the running kernel
- The Leapp upgrade fails when an entry in /etc/fstab is invalid on RHEL 7
- The yum fails to install or update the pam package when /var/run is not a soft link or is not owned by root
- The host-metering client enters a failed state during client starts up due to a corrupted write-ahead log
- The new kernel installation fails and initramfs does not get generated due to small /boot partition size
2.2.2. Drift
As of September 30 2024, the drift service, provided in Red Hat Insights for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has been removed from the product. You can no longer access the drift service from the Hybrid Cloud Console or use the associated API endpoints. For more information about the discontinuation of the drift service, contact: Red Hat customer service
2.2.3. Insights image builder
Image builder package recommendations powered by RHEL Lightspeed
Image builder now analyzes the packages you have selected and recommends additional, relevant packages. Image builder is available in the Red Hat Insights preview environment.
2.2.4. Inventory
Export your inventory as CSV and JSON files
You can export your registered systems from inventory using our new export service. Create a request and download your inventory in either CSV or JSON formats.
This feature is accessible through both the Red Hat Insights inventory UI and the Export service API, and adheres to the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions you have configured. The export process runs asynchronously in the background. For more details on how to use this feature, visit our inventory product documentation or try it for yourself using preview mode:
2.2.5. Malware detection service
Review and set status for malware detection signature matches
You can review and set the status for malware detection signature matches at both the system and signature levels. You can also remove irrelevant matches and information from your environment before viewing malware detection results. A new Total matches column is available. You can use this to view the number of matches on a system and the history of those matches. Red Hat Insights retains matches indefinitely, providing you with a robust historical record.
2.2.6. Tasks
Live connection status
You might have experienced issues when executing task jobs, due to an inactive remote host configuration (RHC) connection. A live connection status is now provided so that you know to fix a connection before executing a job.
2.2.7. Vulnerability
Migration of security data source from OVAL to CSAF/VEX
Our Red Hat Product Security team is now publishing CSAF data with VEX files. For more information, see the following:
The vulnerability service is the first to migrate to CSAF and VEX across both the internal and external user base. The migration to CSAF and VEX continues to improve the accuracy of the vulnerability service and the performance of backend processing. Red Hat does not publish OVAL data files for future major RHEL releases, for example, version 10 and later.
2.3. Insights for OpenShift Container Platform
Observability intelligence
Development preview of incident detection is now available for OpenShift Container Platform. This alert will help you perform root cause analysis. It identifies incidents and initiates debugging. You can see a history of incidents, easily identify critical ones, and reduce the number of signals received while debugging cluster issues. Signals are system messages describing application and operating system activity. For more information about installation and features see the following:
