It is vitally important for every device on a network to have the latest software installed and operating on the device. This straightforward process alone is a critical component that helps to ensure the network is operating securely and reliably. Despite this fact, many enterprises are woefully behind in their ability to upgrade every device in the network in a reasonable amount of time.
Why It’s Time to Modernize & Automate Network OS Upgrades
As we have already discussed, it takes a person too long to accomplish a single software upgrade, and when you do the math, it turns out to be impossible for the team to upgrade all of the network devices within a window of time. Because of this fact, many network engineers turn to scripts to help them with the CLI portions of the upgrade process. This may provide a small amount of time savings, but the reality is that there are other steps in the process that simple CLI scripts cannot automate. It’s these other steps that incur a significant amount of time for a person to manage, and the idea of running a script to automate everything just doesn’t pan out. What is really needed is a modern solution that provides network engineers the ability to automate the entire software upgrade process and reduce the time to complete to minutes, which allows for more devices to be upgraded in less time with minimal human intervention.
Itential provides an easy way for network teams to modernize the way they accomplish software upgrades, helping them leverage automation to finally bring every device in their network up to current versions. This will provide a higher degree of trust and confidence in the network’s ability to remain secure and reliable.
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Unsure about network reliability and security. Network devices running old versions of software pose security risks and have more software defects, making the network that much more sketchy, and networks aren’t supposed to be sketchy.
Greater confidence with network security and reliability. By leveraging automation to always keep your network devices up to date with the latest software, which includes the most up to date security patches and bug fixes, you can be confident the network is operating with the most optimal software available.
Network teams unfairly burdened. Accomplishing software upgrades manually is not a possible task for network teams. This is a burden they carry, without a solution to help them accomplish it.
Network team with more time. With an automated solution that can remove the software upgrade burden, network teams have actual hope and enough time to focus their talents on other important network projects.
Limited automation scope and more time wasted. Running scripts to automate a single task is limiting because it does not integrate with other systems in the process, causing more required human intervention.
Integrate with everything. Itential’s automation platform is built to quickly integrate and network or IT system using APIs., which means the network team will be able to build bigger and better automations integrating with ITSMs, IPAMs, controllers and more. This means they will save more time, more money, and have a meaningful impact for the business.
