Upgrade Wizard - Users GuideIssue Now Support (HI) Upgrade Wizard is a step-by-step guide to help customers reduce the time to upgrade by using the easy-to-follow navigation. Table of Contents: Scheduling an upgrade for a production or non-production instanceModifying a scheduled upgrade or patchModifying Target VersionCanceling an upgrade Scheduling an upgrade for a production or non-production instance Access the Now Support (HI) with your customer credentials.Navigate to Instances > Instances Dashboard[Partners only] From the user menu, use the Switch Company feature to select a company.Click on the “Upgrade Now” button(s) located on the top section of the page.Setting up Version Recommendations: Set up Version recommendations page opens up pre-populated with the company's production instances. Note: No upgrades will be scheduled at this step. To give recommended target versions for your upgrade, please select a production instance that needs to be upgraded by the end of the upgrade journey.You can quit the wizard at this step by clicking Cancel Upgrade Wizard or use Upgrade with Service Catalog to manually schedule upgrades.Only one session of Upgrade Wizard can be active at a given time. If you have more than one production instance, you need to complete the existing 'Upgrade Wizard' journey for one of the production instance before moving to next. If more than one production instance need to be upgraded in parallel, please use the manual upgrade process. Get Recommendation button becomes active on instance selection. Click Get Recommendation Selecting a Target Version: Target versions are tailored to your instance's upgrade path:Review essential resources against each of the versions before upgrading.Select a Target version and click Next. Schedule and Manage Upgrades Next step in wizard journey is to schedule your instances for an upgrade.Manage Upgrades page shows list of all non-production instances and production instance selected in Step Setting up Version Recommendations.Target version is pre-populated based on selection made in Step Selecting a Target Version of Wizard journey. Following is a description of the various elements on the screen: Dashboard element Description Current Version Active version of the instance Target version Target version is pre-populated based on selection made in Step 2 of Wizard journey Status An instance can have following different states within Wizard: Ready for upgrade: Instance is eligible to be upgraded within the wizardUp to date: Displays when instances are already on the selected target versionUpgrade Scheduled: Displays when an upgrade/patch is scheduled for an instance Change Record Displays the upgrade changes that are currently scheduled. Actions Schedule Upgrade: Click on this button to schedule an upgrade for an instanceIgnore: Click on this button if you would like to ignore an instance during the current upgrade wizard journey Click Schedule against an instance which needs to be upgraded. You can schedule one or more instances for upgrade. Select Upgrade Date and Time dialog opens up with time slots available for an instance patch or upgrade. Note: Upgrade or patch available time-slots gets populated for the current week. If no time-slots are available in the current week, the next available week is populated with available time-slots. Time-slots will be available on 30 minutes interval.Selecting the time-slot for an upgrade or patch is important. Select the upgrade or patch to start 10–15 minutes before the Upgrade scheduled job runs. This setting allows enough time for the upgrade or patch request to update HI's records about which release version your instance should be on before the Upgrade scheduled job runs. Click Select. A confirmation message appears. Click Confirm.Change gets scheduled. Status against instance gets updated to 'Upgrade Scheduled'.You can click on Save and Exit link to take you back to Instances Dashboard page.Cancel Upgrade Wizard option can be used to cancel the Upgrade Wizard instance. Please note, using this option will cancel upgrades you have scheduled manually, but no changes will happen on instances already upgraded. Resume Upgrade Wizard Upgrade Wizard can be resumed anytime by clicking on the 'Resume Upgrade' button that is located on the Banner on the Instances Dashboard page: style="text-decoration: none;" name="modify"> Modifying a scheduled upgrade or patch using Upgrade Wizard Navigate to Now Support (HI).Navigate to Instances > Instances DashboardClick on Resume Upgrade button on 'Return to Upgrade Wizard banner'.A page will load showing all of the instances. Click on the 'Actions' button for the instance that you want to reschedule the upgrade forReschedule change dialog opens up with time slots available for an instance patch or upgrade. Select a time slot. Validate change start date and time on time slot selection. Start date and time is shown as per users timezone in HI.Validate Planned start date gets updated as per time slot selection. style="text-decoration: none;" name="targetversion"> Modifying Target Version using Upgrade Wizard Navigate to Now Support (HI).Navigate to Instances > Instances DashboardClick on Resume Upgrade button on 'Return to Upgrade Wizard banner'.A page will load showing all of the instances. Click on the 'Actions' button for the instance that you want to change the target version for. You will see an option to 'Update target version'Validate updated Target Version gets updated on change form. Note: Target version can only be updated up to 2 hours prior to change request planned start date/time. Please reschedule your change if Target Version needs to be updated within 2 hours of change request planned start date/time. style="text-decoration: none;" name="cancelUpgrade"> Canceling an upgrade using Upgrade Wizard A Self-scheduled request can be canceled. For information about rescheduling a patch, see ServiceNow Patching Program FAQs. To cancel a self-scheduled upgrade or patch: Navigate to the Now Support (HI).Navigate to Instances > Instances Dashboard[Partners only] From the user menu, use the Switch Company feature to select a company.Click on Resume Upgrade button on 'Return to Upgrade Wizard banner'.Find the instance with the scheduled upgrade or patch that you want to cancel.Click Actions-->Cancel Upgrade For additional information, please refer to ServiceNow HI Upgrade Wizard FAQs. For information on manual upgrades, click here.