Value for 'configPath' when running checkForServerUpgrade on AWS RDS - mysql

Question

To prepare my upgrade from mysql 5.7 to mysql 8, I want to run the upgrade utility checker. Here's what I did so far:
installed mysqlsh on my machine
started mysqlsh
executed util.checkForServerUpgrade targeting the server that I want to upgrade
Here's the exact command that I used in step 3:
util.checkForServerUpgrade('root#my-remote-host:3306', { "password":"my-password" })
This runs fine but some checks are not executed because I don't provide the configPath parameter. For example, here's a warning that I get:
14) Removed system variables for error logging to the system log configuration
To run this check requires full path to MySQL server configuration file to be specified at 'configPath' key of options dictionary
More information:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-13.html#mysqld-8-0-13-logging
Anybody knows the value that I should provide for the configPath parameter?

Answer 1

I've tried to do the same using the command util.checkForServerUpgrade defining the configPath, without success. I then tried to run the same command directly from outside the mysqlsh shell, with success:
mysqlsh -- util check-for-server-upgrade root#localhost --target-version=8.0.13 --output-format=JSON --config-path=/etc/mysql/my.cnf
and it worked. To be noted that when I've tried to run from mysqlsh in the session root#localhost the command:
util.checkForServerUpgrade({"configPath":"/etc/mysql/my.cnf"})
mysqlsh replied with:
"Util.checkForServerUpgrade: Argument #1: Invalid values in connection options: configPath (ArgumentError)"

Answer 2

Try putting in the connection string, for example,
util.checkForServerUpgrade('root#localhost',{'configPath': '/etc/my.cnf'})
This worked for me, but without the connection string it doesn't.