Chapter 3. Reviewing the pre-upgrade report

To assess upgradability of your system, start the pre-upgrade process by the leapp preupgrade command. During this phase, the Leapp utility collects data about the system, assesses upgradability, and generates a pre-upgrade report.

The pre-upgrade report is available both in the /var/log/leapp/leapp-report.txt file and in the web console. The report summarizes potential problems and proposes recommended solutions. The report also helps you decide whether it is possible or advisable to proceed with the upgrade.

You have two options when assessing upgradability in the pre-upgrade phase:

  1. Review the pre-upgrade report in the generated leapp-report.txt file and manually resolve reported problems using the command-line interface.
  2. Use the web console to review the report, apply automated remediations where available, and fix remaining problems using the suggested remediation hints.
Important

During the pre-upgrade phase, Leapp neither simulates the whole in-place upgrade process nor downloads all RPM packages.

Reviewing a pre-upgrade report is useful also if you decide or need to redeploy a RHEL 8 system without the in-place upgrade process.

3.1. Assessing upgradability from the command line

This procedure describes how to identify potential upgrade problems during the pre-upgrade phase using the command-line interface.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. On your RHEL 7 system, perform the pre-upgrade phase: 

    # leapp preupgrade
    Note

    If you are going to use custom repositories from the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory for the upgrade, enable the selected repositories as follows: 

    # leapp preupgrade --enablerepo repository_id1 --enablerepo repository_id2 ...

    If you are going to upgrade without RHSM, add the --no-rhsm option.

  2. Examine the report in the /var/log/leapp/leapp-report.txt file, and manually resolve all the reported problems before proceeding with the in-place upgrade.

3.2. Assessing upgradability and applying automated remediations through the web console

This procedure describes how to identify potential problems in the pre-upgrade phase and how to apply automated remediations using the web console.

Prerequisites

Procedure

  1. Install the cockpit-leapp plug-in: 

    # yum install cockpit-leapp
  2. Navigate to the web console in your browser and log in as root or as a user with sufficient privileges. See Managing systems using the RHEL 7 web console for more information about the web console.

  3. On your RHEL 7 system, perform the pre-upgrade phase either from the command-line interface or from the web console terminal: 

    # leapp preupgrade
    Note

    If you are going to use custom repositories from the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory for the upgrade, enable the selected repositories as follows: 

    # leapp preupgrade --enablerepo repository_id1 --enablerepo repository_id2 ...

    If you are going to upgrade without RHSM, add the --no-rhsm option.

  4. In the web console, select In-place Upgrade Report from the left menu.

    Figure 3.1. In-place upgrade report in the web console

    In-place upgrade report in the web console

    The report table provides an overview of the problems found, their risk assessment, and remediations (if available).

    • Risk factor:

      • High - very likely to result in a deteriorated system state
      • Medium - can impact both the system and applications
      • Low - should not impact the system but can have an impact on applications
    • Inhibitor - will inhibit (hard stop) the upgrade process, otherwise the system could become unbootable, inaccessible, or dysfunctional

    • Remediation - an actionable solution to a reported problem:

      • Remediation command - can be executed directly through the web console
      • Remediation hint - instructions on how to resolve the problem manually

  5. Examine the content of the report. You can sort the table by clicking a header. To open a detail pane, click a selected row.

    Figure 3.2. Detail pane

    Detail pane

    The detail pane displays the following additional information:

    • Summary of the problem and links to Knowledgebase articles describing the problem in more detail
    • Remediations - you can run or schedule an automated remediation (if available), and see its results when applied
    • Affected system resources: packages, repositories, files (configuration, data), disks, volumes

  6. Optionally filter the results. Click the Filters button in the top left corner above the report and apply a filter based on your preferences. Filter categories are applied in conjunction with one another.

    Figure 3.3. Filters

    Filters

  7. Select issues for which you want to apply an automated remediation. You have two options:

    1. Choose individual items by clicking the Add to Remediation Plan button in the detail pane. Alternatively, you can execute individual remediations directly by clicking Run Remediation in the detail pane.
    2. Select all items for which a remediation is available by clicking the Add all remediations to plan button in the top right corner above the report.

  8. Open the remediation plan by clicking the Remediation plan link in the top right corner above the report. The remediation plan provides a list of all executed or scheduled remediations.

    Figure 3.4. Remediation plan

    Remediation plan

  9. Process all scheduled remediations by clicking Execute Remediation Plan. The following information is displayed for each remediation entry:

    • A unique ID of the remediation
    • Exit status of the command
    • Elapsed time of the executed remediation
    • Standard output
    • Standard error
  10. After executing selected remediations, generate the pre-upgrade report again by using the leapp preupgrade command, examine the new report, and take additional remediation steps if needed.