- Overview
- Requirements
- Root privileges requirements
- High Availability – three availability zones
- Certificate Requirements
- Network Requirements
- Installation
- Post-installation
- Cluster administration
- Managing products
- Managing the cluster in ArgoCD
- Setting up the external NFS server
- Automated: Enabling the Backup on the Cluster
- Automated: Disabling the Backup on the Cluster
- Automated, Online: Restoring the Cluster
- Automated, Offline: Restoring the Cluster
- Manual: Enabling the Backup on the Cluster
- Manual: Disabling the Backup on the Cluster
- Manual, Online: Restoring the Cluster
- Manual, Offline: Restoring the Cluster
- Additional configuration
- Migrating objectstore from persistent volume to raw disks
- Monitoring and alerting
- Migration and upgrade
- Migration options
- Step 1: Moving the Identity organization data from standalone to Automation Suite
- Step 2: Restoring the standalone product database
- Step 3: Backing up the platform database in Automation Suite
- Step 4: Merging organizations in Automation Suite
- Step 5: Updating the migrated product connection strings
- Step 6: Migrating standalone Insights
- Step 7: Deleting the default tenant
- B) Single tenant migration
- Product-specific configuration
- Best practices and maintenance
- Troubleshooting
- How to Troubleshoot Services During Installation
- How to Uninstall the Cluster
- How to clean up offline artifacts to improve disk space
- How to clear Redis data
- How to enable Istio logging
- How to manually clean up logs
- How to clean up old logs stored in the sf-logs bucket
- How to disable streaming logs for AI Center
- How to debug failed Automation Suite installations
- How to delete images from the old installer after upgrade
- How to automatically clean up Longhorn snapshots
- How to disable TX checksum offloading
- How to address weak ciphers in TLS 1.2
- Unable to run an offline installation on RHEL 8.4 OS
- Error in Downloading the Bundle
- Offline installation fails because of missing binary
- Certificate issue in offline installation
- First installation fails during Longhorn setup
- SQL connection string validation error
- Prerequisite check for selinux iscsid module fails
- Azure disk not marked as SSD
- Failure After Certificate Update
- Automation Suite not working after OS upgrade
- Automation Suite Requires Backlog_wait_time to Be Set 1
- Volume unable to mount due to not being ready for workloads
- RKE2 fails during installation and upgrade
- Failure to upload or download data in objectstore
- PVC resize does not heal Ceph
- Failure to Resize Objectstore PVC
- Rook Ceph or Looker pod stuck in Init state
- StatefulSet volume attachment error
- Failure to create persistent volumes
- Storage reclamation patch
- Backup failed due to TooManySnapshots error
- All Longhorn replicas are faulted
- Setting a timeout interval for the management portals
- Update the underlying directory connections
- Cannot Log in After Migration
- Kinit: Cannot Find KDC for Realm <AD Domain> While Getting Initial Credentials
- Kinit: Keytab Contains No Suitable Keys for *** While Getting Initial Credentials
- GSSAPI Operation Failed With Error: An Invalid Status Code Was Supplied (Client's Credentials Have Been Revoked).
- Alarm Received for Failed Kerberos-tgt-update Job
- SSPI Provider: Server Not Found in Kerberos Database
- Login Failed for User <ADDOMAIN><aduser>. Reason: The Account Is Disabled.
- ArgoCD login failed
- Failure to get the sandbox image
- Pods not showing in ArgoCD UI
- Redis Probe Failure
- RKE2 Server Fails to Start
- Secret Not Found in UiPath Namespace
- After the Initial Install, ArgoCD App Went Into Progressing State
- MongoDB pods in CrashLoopBackOff or pending PVC provisioning after deletion
- Unexpected Inconsistency; Run Fsck Manually
- Degraded MongoDB or Business Applications After Cluster Restore
- Missing Self-heal-operator and Sf-k8-utils Repo
- Unhealthy Services After Cluster Restore or Rollback
- RabbitMQ pod stuck in CrashLoopBackOff
- Prometheus in CrashloopBackoff state with out-of-memory (OOM) error
- Missing Ceph-rook metrics from monitoring dashboards
- Pods cannot communicate with FQDN in a proxy environment
- Using the Automation Suite Diagnostics Tool
- Using the Automation Suite support bundle
- Exploring Logs

Automation Suite Installation Guide
Root privileges requirements
You need root privileges (sudo su) to deploy Automation Suite. The following sections describe the specific components that require root access and why they require it.
The following components require root access to configure the machines to install Automation Suite. This is required because the default partitioning structure on RHEL machines is not suitable for installing Kubernetes. All of these components are required on all nodes.
Component |
Why is root required to execute? |
---|---|
parted |
Required to update the partition structure. |
pvresize |
Required to resize physical volume. |
lvextend |
Required to extend logical volume. |
xfs_growfs |
Required to expand an XFS filesystem. |
mkfs.ext4 |
Required to build a Linux filesystem. |
mount |
Required to mount a filesystem. |
The following components are required to execute the Automation Suite installer at the time of installation. All Linux components require root to be installed.
Component |
Node(s) the component is required for |
---|---|
helm |
Server and Agent |
argocd |
Server |
jq |
Server and Agent |
curl |
Server and Agent |
openssl |
Server and Agent |
uuidd |
Server and Agent |
nc |
Server and Agent |
httpd-tools |
Server and Agent |
iscsi-initiator-utils |
Server and Agent |
iscsid |
Server and Agent |
rke2 services with Kubernetes |
Server and Agent |
longhorn |
Server and Agent |
podman1 |
Server |
1 Only required for offline installation
Of the components that were installed, the following run as root during normal Automation Suite cluster operations.
Component |
Node(s) the compenent is required |
Why is root required to execute? |
---|---|---|
iscsi-initiator-utils |
Server and Agent |
Required to provide the server daemon for the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol, as well as the utility programs used to manage it. |
iscsid |
Server and Agent |
Required to implement the control path for iSCSI protocol for distributing disk access using SCSI commands sent over Internet Protocol networks, plus some management facilities. |
rke2 services with Kubernetes |
Server and Agent |
Required to configure containers and networking rules in the Kubernetes distribution. |
longhorn |
Server and Agent |
Required to manage block storage between containers and the disks on the machines. |