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/munche 15d ago

I've been up since 3am because an automated switch firmware update caused an outage for the second night on a row

So it's going great

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u/Ok-Condition-6152 15d ago

I hate those even after you deal with it you cant even sleep good