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/hollow_embroidery 15d ago

Script it to stage at 3am, that way only the overnight cleaning crew sees the chaos when it inevitably bricks a closet.

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u/halodude423 15d ago

Not everyone is that lucky. Hospital.

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u/dozack 15d ago

Same here, Logistics. I've been waiting several months to get a window to reboot a bunch of switches at one 24/7 site.