Hi, > 1. What drives you to upgrade code on critical routers & switches?
new features + bug fixes. keeping the firmware up to date should be part of the planning process - whatever network mgmt method you follow (FCAPS, ITIL, TMN, etc) upgrading should be part of planned actions - or one day you find your whole estate running very old. one advantage of keeping up to date is you read the release notes...and see things that make you think 'oooh! thas a cool feature'...and 'ooh! thats a bug that would hit us, glad we havent had that YET' ;-) > 2. Do you upgrade code on a fixed schedule if not driven to by some other > immediate requirement? upgrades are done during advertised/known 'network at risk' period, this is early on a weekday morning before business hours/core hours. we also found that buy keeping the IOS reasonably up to date...whenever another team has come to us asking for requirement/feature our switches tend to already have that available - eg energywise or LLDP alan _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
