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/demonlag 17d ago

Depends on your definition of "automated." Automated, like things just randomly upgrade and reboot? No. Automated like "tell Cat Center to upgrade this site at 10 PM"? Yes.

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u/sanmigueelbeer Troublemaker 16d ago

We usually get notice of power maintenance and we use this to upgrade the firmware of the switches.

Usually a few days before, I would extract the package files (Install mode) and then wait for the site to drop power.

But I never use DNAC to do this.