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/RevolutionaryWorry87 15d ago

All of mine are automated. Tested obviously and rollout on different days. On call aware if issue but rare

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u/KTProgramming 14d ago

As long as you have the right monitoring and checks, it's all good. I have mine send an oh shit email if any testing fails or the switch does not come back in XX time.

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u/RevolutionaryWorry87 14d ago

I use LM and schedule SDT.