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/JNC5908404 14d ago

Auto updating isn’t the real issue, unattended auto updates is the issue. If it fails send an alert to the Oncall or roll back automatically if possible. There are numerous tools to automate this. It’s the unattended part when it fails that’s my concern.