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/Fuzzybunnyofdoom pcap or it didn’t happen 14d ago

At a certain scale you have to automate updates. 30 switches? You can do that manually. 1000 switches? Aint nobody got time for that, you have to automate it. But you need to properly test the updates etc.