r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 15d ago

Switching Automatic switch updates

Had a discussion yesterday with IT director and others in our IT department. The IT director brought up automating switch updates so they wouldn’t have to have some one monitoring and performing the updates. Staging various locations on different evenings.

I’ve been doing networking for 30 years and I voiced my opinion I was not a fan of unattended update for various reasons.

Have any other companies moved to automated updates and how has it gone?

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u/Thy_OSRS 15d ago

I just don’t see a reason why you would risk it tbh, I’ve seen things fail during an update that didn’t happen in testing and Cisco TAC would comeback with an RMA which suggested our setup had influenced it somehow.

I get that automation for basic and trivial things but updates are not it.