Chapter 6. Executing remediation plans

Execution readiness criteria are conditions that your remediation plan must meet before the plan is ready to execute. Before you execute a remediation plan, make sure that your plan meets the criteria.

A remediation plan must meet the following criteria before it can execute:

Remediation plans must fall within execution limits before they can be executed remotely using Red Hat Lightspeed. An execution limit is the threshold that determines whether a remediation plan can successfully execute on your systems. If a remediation plan falls outside execution limits, you cannot execute the plan within Red Hat Lightspeed. However, you can download the plan and run it manually with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or with a Red Hat Satellite integration.

When you create a remediation plan, you can use action points to decide how and where to execute it. Red Hat Lightspeed uses a system of action points to calculate the relative complexity and performance impact of a remediation plan. Complex issues require a higher number of action points, and simpler issues require a lower number. Red Hat Lightspeed assigns a specific point value to each type of issue and calculates the plan’s total size against the platform’s performance capabilities.

Red Hat Lightspeed supports execution reliability for plans up to 100 systems and 1,000 action points. If the total number of systems and action points for your plan falls within these limits, you can run the plan directly on Red Hat Lightspeed.

If the plan exceeds those limits, the Execute button on the Remediation Plans page in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console is disabled, and the Execution readiness summary shows how many systems and action points you must remove to execute the remediation plan within Red Hat Lightspeed. You must either remove systems and issues from the remediation plan to execute it within Red Hat Lightspeed, or download the plan and run it with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or with a Satellite integration.

The Execution readiness summary shows the number of systems and action points in your remediation plan. If the number of remediations exceeds 100 systems and 1,000 action points, the summary shows how many systems and action points you must remove to execute the remediation plan within Red Hat Lightspeed.

If your plan falls slightly over the execution limits, you can remove individual systems or issues from the plan to make reductions in your planned remediation. Removing a single Advisor issue frees up 20 points, whereas you would need to remove 10 Patch issues to achieve the same reduction.

Use these guidelines to view the number of action points required to run your remediation plan:

For example, a plan containing 50 Patch issues would only total 100 points (50 x 2), which falls well within execution limits. However, a plan with 50 Advisor issues would total 1,000 points (50 x 20), reaching the maximum limit immediately. The plan with 50 Advisor issues would still run on Red Hat Lightspeed, but only if the number of systems is fewer than 100.

If your plan falls slightly over the limit of 1,000 action points, you can remove individual issues from the plan to make reductions in your planned remediation. Removing a single Advisor issue frees up 20 points, whereas you would need to remove 10 Patch issues to achieve the same reduction.

If your plan exceeds the limits by a significant number, you can download the plan and execute it with AAP without needing to first remove systems or reduce the number and type of issues that you want to fix.