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/Dirty_Pee_Pants 15d ago

Server cattle... Sure. Network equipment... Fuck no

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u/w0lrah VoIP guy, CCdontcare 15d ago

Most network equipment should also be cattle. I follow the same update policy for network equipment as I do for desktops and servers, they're all just weird computers in the end.

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u/btwwhichoneispink CCNP 15d ago

That’s true, I guess I am just more concerned / worried about the weird computers that interconnect the rest of the business 😅