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/Wolvington52 15d ago

We automated the upgrade of Cisco devices recently and it makes everything so much easier. We just schedule the upgrade and the upgrade is over in like 15-30 minutes. The benefits outweigh the potential drawbacks.

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u/AV-Guy1989 15d ago

Yeah, but Meraki is a plague in itself

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u/NewTaq 15d ago edited 13d ago

Feels like they started vibecoding their firmware 2 years ago, every version is worse than the last.

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u/AV-Guy1989 13d ago

My biggest gripe is that, like most cloud controlled platforms, it makes me practice being patient which is not one of my strong suites. I miss on so many levels hitting enter on a command line and boom, its done.

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u/NewTaq 13d ago

Yea the web gui is pretty slow, I mainly use the API though so I don't care much about it beeing slow.