topic Re: Upgrade Advisor in ONTAP Discussions

Upgrade Advisor

Fuad — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:04:11 GMT

I work for a secure site and my systems don't show up on ActiveIQ for security reasons. Is there a way for me to use upgrade advisor? I am planning to upgrade from ONTAP 9.1 to 9.8.

Thank you.

Re: Upgrade Advisor

aladd — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 04:29:17 GMT

Upgrade advisor uses Autosupports to generate, without an uploaded Autosupport, it will not generate.

You can follow normal proceedures, but it may not warn you of specific actions or burts to be cautious about.

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/upgrade/

upgrade paths:

https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/upgrade/concept_upgrade_paths.html

Re: Upgrade Advisor

Fuad — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:25:27 GMT

Thank you so much Aladd for your response. Is there a way to strip the IPs and any identifying info from ASUPS when sending them to NetApp?

Re: Upgrade Advisor

aladd — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:36:42 GMT

Hello @Fuad ,

You can remove sensitive data from ASUPs by enabling remove sensitive data in the ASUP configuration when enabling them. This will purge host names, IPs and other sensitive data from the AutoSupports before sending:

https://kb.netapp.com/Advice_and_Troubleshooting/Data_Storage_Software/ONTAP_OS/How_to_remove_sensitive_data_from_AutoSupports_before_sending_to_NetApp

Re: Upgrade Advisor

Fuad — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:44:28 GMT

Thank you Aladd