What is the business rationale for this exception? Is there a specific customer that needs this RFE?

Customer upgrade was fully blocked by multipath. Solution was to provide them with workaround options.

Are there any security concerns? No

What other functions, teams, or DFGs are impacted by this feature? Only upgrade - system upgrade.

What is the estimated time to have the upstream work complete and approved? Patch ready and tested on production...

What is the time and resources required to test this issue? On what date will automated tests be written and ready to run and report results in Polarion? We will not have multipath in CI, no plan to add.

Is there potential doc impact? No.

Are there new packages needed that are not packaged in OSP or RHEL? Does it require newer versions of existing dependencies (dependency bumps)?

No new packages or dependencies.

What is the support level? Fully supported

How invasive is the code? From very invasive, a core change to very isolated, no risk to other components? Minimal impact

What is the impact to deployment/updates/upgrades/FFU; what are the test plans in these areas? Minimal impact, we just add option where customers can pass shell script to post reboot tasks.