Upgrade Summary Report

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 3 minutes to read

    • The Upgrade Summary report summarizes the actions taken, provides tools to resolve conflicts between customizations and changes that are part of the upgrade, and provides information to help estimate time for upgrades to other instances.

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    Table 1. Upgrade Summary details
    Field Input Value
    Upgraded version Version to which the instance has been upgraded
    Upgrade duration Total time taken to make the upgrade
    Find out what's new and changed Links to view the new and changed features in the current upgrade version. The following three links show up.
    • Problem fixes: Fixes that have been made since the last upgrade version
    • Personalized release notes: Release notes summary for the previewed version
    • Known error articles: Errors that have been identified but not yet resolved

    Skipped Records

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    Table 2. Skipped Records details
    Field Input Value
    Total record changes Total number of records that have changed since the previous upgrade version.

    Review changes: List of records that have changed can be reviewed. See System Upgrade form for more details.
    Skipped records Skipped records to prevent your customizations from being overwritten. If customizations are found in some records during the upgrade, those records are skipped.
    As an admin, you can resolve each update that was skipped due to a customization. To resolve a skipped update, you can review the reason for each skipped record and then either retain the customization or revert the customization to the base system. If you choose to revert some of the customizations to the base version, those records are sent through the upgrade without getting skipped.
    • Total: Total skipped records
    • To review: Total skipped records that are yet to be reviewed
    • Reviewed: Total skipped records that have been reviewed
    Skipped records by priority ServiceNow prioritizes the skipped records based on the importance of the file types. The prioritization is done as follows:
    • Priority 1 (highest priority): UI pages, UI macros, and more
    • Priority 2: Business Rules, Security ACLs, and more
    • Priority 3: Reports and more
    • Priority 4: Form Sections, Choice Sets, and more
    • Priority 5 (lowest priority): other
    Skipped records by product Skipped records are sorted by product names
    Skipped records code changed/code unchanged Skipped records are sorted depending on if there are changes in the code or not.
    Note:
    You can click Skipped Record VTB to view the resolution status of the current upgrade with skipped records using the visual task board (VTB) view. See Skipped Records visual task board (VTB) for more information.

    Node Upgrades

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    The Node Upgrades section shows the status of the upgrade for each node in the instance. The color of the icon denotes the status, as illustrated by the legend (key) and to the right of the node icons. To see details about a node, position the cursor above the icon for that node. An arrow points to the node selected, and the information below the icons pertains to that node.

    Application Upgrade Status

    Application Upgrade Status.

    You can view the list of installed and upgraded applications during an upgrade. It also lists the applications that failed to install during the process.
    Note:
    The All applications are on the latest versions message shows up only when all the applications are on their latest versions.
    Installed and upgraded applications.You can view the first 10 applications that were installed during the upgrade. Select View all application details to view the information about all the installed, upgraded, and failed applications on the Upgrade App Version Histories table.
    Note:
    You can select any of the application links to go to its form view. Select Go to application on the form view to go to the application sys record.

    The following message shows up if you have selected any of the failed applications link.Application upgrade failure message.

    Schema Changes to Clone-excluded Tables

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    The Schema Changes to Clone-excluded Tables section shows a list of tables affected by the upgrade that were clone-excluded when you cloned the production instance to this instance. Because clone-excluded tables are empty, upgrading them takes less time than upgrading those same tables on the production instance. To estimate how much longer the production upgrade takes, note the size of the clone-excluded tables on the production instance.

    Top 10 Fix Scripts by Duration

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    The Top 10 Fix Scripts by Duration helps you understand which fix scripts required the most time.

    Top 10 Schema Changes by Duration

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    The Top 10 Schema Changes by Duration helps you understand which schema changes required the most time.

    Top 10 Plugins by Duration

    The Top 10 Plugins by Duration helps you see the plugins that required the most time. Click View all plugin duration to see the System Upgrade Metrics list filtered by current sys upgrade history log and sorted by duration. See View loaded files for a plugin for more information.