Pre Upgrade Checks

You must run the pre-upgrade checks before you upgrade to NetWitness 11.7.0.0 to identify any issues that may result in upgrade failure.

To run the pre-upgrade checks, perform the following:

  1. Log in to Admin console.

  2. Run the following command:
    nw-precheck-tool upgrade-checklist

    The pre-upgrade checks verifies the following:

  • Security Client File Check - Ensures security-client-amqp.yml file is not present

  • Node-0 NW Service-id Status - Ensures all the service-id is intact with all the different services in Node 0

  • Broker Service Trustpeer Symlink - Ensures Broker symlink file (/etc/netwitness/ng/broker/trustpeers/) is not broken

  • Node-0 NW Services Status - Checks the status of all the services in Node 0

  • Yum External Repo Check - Ensures external repos are not available and not enabled

  • RPM DB Index Check - Checks if the RPM DB is corrupted or not

  • Salt Master Communication - Verifies the salt communication from Node 0 to all the Nodes

  • Node-0 Certificates Check - Checks if any certificates are missing, expired, or valid issuer type

  • Mongo Authentication - Validates the deploy_admin credentials fetched from security-cli-client using mongo client

  • Rabbitmq Authentication - Validates the deploy_admin credentials fetched from security-cli-client using RabbitMQ