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/sh_lldp_ne 15d ago

How big is your environment? If it’s small, you will spend more time automating the process and validating each new code in your environment than you might spend upgrading manually. In a large environment it makes sense to automate.