Upgrading Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with the Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) user interface

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Use these instructions to upgrade an existing Netcool® Operations Insight® deployment from version 1.6.7 to version 1.6.8, with the Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM) user interface (UI).

Before you begin

  • Ensure that you complete all the steps in Preparing your cluster. Most of these steps were completed as part of your previous Netcool Operations Insight deployment.
  • Ensure that you have an adequately sized cluster. For more information, see Sizing for a Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift deployment.
  • Configure persistent storage for your deployment. Only version 1.6.7 deployments with persistence enabled are supported for upgrade to version 1.6.8.
  • Before you upgrade to version 1.6.8, if present, remove the noi-root-ca secret by running the following command:
    oc delete secret noi-root-ca
  • Before you upgrade to version 1.6.8, if present, reverse any image overrides from the test fix of the previous release.
    1. Edit the custom resource (CR).
      oc edit noi <release-name>
      Where <release-name> is the release name, for example, evtmanager.
    2. Manually remove the tag, name, and digest entries of image overrides from the helmValuesNOI section of the YAML file.

If you want to verify the origin of the catalog, then use the OLM UI and CASE upgrade method instead. For more information, see Upgrading a cloud deployment offline using the OLM UI and CASE.

All the necessary images for version 1.6.8 are either in the freely accessible operator repository (icr.io/cpopen), or in the IBM Entitled Registry (cp.icr.io) for which you need an entitlement key.

Procedure

Upgrade the catalog source

  1. From the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform OLM UI, go to Administration > Cluster Settings. Then, go to the Configurations tab and select the OperatorHub configuration resource.
  2. Under the Sources tab, click the existing Netcool Operations Insight catalog source.
  3. Edit the catalog source YAML and replace spec.image with the Netcool Operations Insight catalog source name and image for version 1.6.8, icr.io/cpopen/ibm-operator-catalog:latest. Select Save.

Upgrade the Netcool Operations Insight operator

  1. To upgrade the operator from the OLM UI, go to Operators > Installed Operators > IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager. Go to the Subscription tab.
    • Select v1.12 in the Update channel section.
    Note: It takes a few minutes for IBM Cloud Pak for Watson™ AIOps Event Manager to install. When installed, ensure that the status of IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager is Succeeded before you proceed to the next steps.

Upgrade the Netcool Operations Insight instance

  1. From the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform OLM UI, upgrade the Netcool Operations Insight instance by going to Operators > Installed Operators and select your Project. Then select IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps Event Manager.
  2. Delete the following statefulsets and wait for the associated pods to delete. 
    oc delete sts <release-name>-spark-master
oc delete sts <release-name>-spark-slave
  3. Delete the following deployment.
    Run the following command.
    oc delete deployment <release-name>-grafana
  4. Go to the All instances tab and select your instance. Edit the Netcool Operations Insight instance YAM.
    • Update spec.version: 1.6.7 to spec.version: 1.6.8.
  5. Select Save and wait until all pods are restarted. You can monitor progress from the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform UI.

What to do next

After you upgrade your deployment, you must update the webgui statefulset. For more information, see Configuring Netcool Operations Insight on Red Hat OpenShift with LDAP MS Active Directory.
To enable or disable an observer after installation, use the oc patch command, as in following example:
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/netDisco", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/aaionap", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/alm", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/ansibleawx", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/appdynamics", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/aws", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/azure", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/bigcloudfabric", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/bigfixinventory", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/cienablueplanet", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/ciscoaci", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/contrail", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/dns", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/docker", "value": 'true' }]'	
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/dynatrace", "value": 'true' }]'		
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/file", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/gitlab", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/googlecloud", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/hpnfvd", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/ibmcloud", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/itnm", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/jenkins", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/junipercso", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/kubernetes", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/newrelic", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/openstack", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/rancher", "value": 'true' }]'	
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/rest", "value": 'true' }]'						
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/sdconap", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/servicenow", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/sevone", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/taddm", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/viptela", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/vmvcenter", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/vmwarensx", "value": 'true' }]'
oc patch noi $noi_instance_name -n $NAMESPACE --type='json' -p='[{"op": "replace", "path": "/spec/topology/observers/zabbix", "value": 'true' }]'