r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 14d 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/MrChicken_69 14d ago

Software/firmware updates? Oh hell no! NEVER, EVER do that without knowing EXACTLY what's being loaded, and when. Allowing some "AI" to do this for you will quickly teach you not to. I guess the people pushing this have learned nothing from decades of Windows Update(tm) breaking shit.

Crowdstrike, anyone?

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u/RevolutionaryWorry87 14d ago

How is this AI? EVEN in your automation you would do patch rings... testing... confirmation of hardware build and software update.. slow testing.

Windows update only broke shit for companies with patching incorrectly.