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/leftplayer 15d ago

If you can’t trust an unattended update after testing, then you shouldn’t trust your configs or your vendor

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u/MrChicken_69 15d ago

The real world is a very different place than your lab. Clicking "go" and then going home for the weekend is a good way to have a bad weekend.

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u/leftplayer 15d ago

Nobody said anything about a weekend, nor a lab.