Bug 2107660

Summary: [RFE] leapp add "Low Risk" section to inform sa/sar files generated on RHEL 7 must be converted in RHEL 8
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Juan Sebastian Castro <jucastro>
Component: leapp-repositoryAssignee: Leapp Notifications Bot <leapp-notifications-bot>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: upgrades-and-conversions
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Version: 7.9CC: jcastran, jorge.fabregas, pstodulk, sujagtap
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Description Juan Sebastian Castro 2022-07-15 15:31:37 UTC 
Description of problem:

After migrating a RHEL 7 system sar data files (historic data) are not longer read by new sysstat version in RHEL 8.

"Current sysstat version cannot read the format of this file"  (please see attached screenshot).

It'd be ideal to add a low rating warning message in leapp-report.txt file stating a conversion of all sa/sar files must be peformed after the migration because sysstat on RHEL 8 won't be able to read historic data.

Possible hint could be pointing to KCS https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5240511.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
leapp-repository-0.14.0-4.el7_9.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install sysstat on RHEL 7
    yum install -y sysstat

2. Run sa1 command to collect and store binary data of system's activity.
    /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1

3. Read the sa## file generated

sar -f sa15
Linux 3.10.0-1160.el7.x86_64 (rhel79.domain.net) 	07/15/2022 	_x86_64_	(1 CPU)

03:13:18 PM     CPU     %user     %nice   %system   %iowait    %steal     %idle
03:13:19 PM     all      1.20      0.00      1.20      0.00      0.00     97.60
03:13:20 PM     all      1.25      0.00      1.25      0.00      0.00     97.50
Average:        all      1.21      0.00      1.21      0.00      0.00     97.57

4. Perform a migration RHEL 7 -> RHEL 8

5. Once in RHEL 8 try to read sa15 using sar command.

[root@rhel86 vagrant]# sar -f sa15
Invalid system activity file: sa15
File created by sar/sadc from sysstat version 10.1.5
Current sysstat version cannot read the format of this file (0x2171)

Actual results:
There isn't any low rate message warning about this.

Expected results:
A low risk warning message with a hint steps about how to convert the sa files. 

Additional info:
Maybe including kcs https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5240511 in hints for further information.
Comment 3 Petr Stodulka 2022-07-18 12:58:30 UTC 
Hi, thank you for the report and the link to the KCB. We have already opened a related BZ if I remember well and originally it was counted with the removal os sar files. However regarding the KCB it seems it could be resolved nowadays in better way. The solutio coule either of these two:
* report the required post-upgrade step (as in this ticket)
* or do the conversion automatically during the upgrade process so nothing has to be done by user