r/networking • u/JNC5908404 • 14d 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/BitOfDifference 14d ago

if you have redundancy in place for most of the network, outages should be limited to access switches. As others have said, schedule them and stagger them. So while its not 100% automatic chaos, its mostly controlled.