Upgrading from SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 to 5 , stage 3 fails

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Environment

SUSE Enterprise Storage 4
SUSE Enterprise Storage 5

Situation

Following the online documentation to upgrade from SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 (DeepSea Deployment) to 5, step "10. f. Run Stage 3 to deploy Ceph Managers:" will fail with the following:

...
apparmor : enabled on 7/7 minions; 0 minions have all ceph.apparmor profiles
...

[ERROR   ] No highstate or sls specified, no execution made
el-sesvm1.hwlab.suse.de_master:
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          ID: ready check failed
    Function: salt.state
        Name: Fail on Warning is True
      Result: False
     Comment: No highstate or sls specified, no execution made
     Started: 08:36:54.538677
    Duration: 0.844 ms
     Changes:

Summary for el-sesvm1.hwlab.suse.de_master
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Succeeded: 0
Failed:    1

Resolution

It is needed to first specify any one of the three apparmor states for the minions, "default-enforce", "default-complain" or "default-disable". The commands to do this, run from the master / DeepSea node:

# salt -I "deepsea_minions:*" state.apply ceph.apparmor.default-enforce
or
# salt -I "deepsea_minions:*" state.apply ceph.apparmor.default-complain
or
# salt -I "deepsea_minions:*" state.apply ceph.apparmor.default-disable

For more information on the above see the SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 online Administration Guide Documentation.

Cause

As part of stage 3 a ready check is performed, during stage 3 this check is by default set to fail on warning. Since at this stage of the upgrade apparmor is enabled on all the nodes but without any profiles, a warning that 0 minions have apparmor profiles is returned during the check resulting in the failure of stage 3

Additional Information

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