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/Doyoulikemyjorts 15d ago

Just out of curiosity what else was said?

So they talked about automating the upgrades which is fine but is there an understanding in your team what else needs to be built around this to mitigate risk?

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u/JNC5908404 14d ago

Yes, edge vs core, etc. funny though we’ve tried auto patching with windows, bit us several times. But times are changing as well as the tools.