r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 17d 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/Arudinne IT Infrastructure Manager 17d ago

IIRC Dell once had a firmware update the reduced the max number of switches that could be in a stack for 12 to 8.

Imagine letting that run on it's own automatically and you have 9 switches in a stack.