[olug] Best Practices Recommendation

[Eric Lusk]

Personally, on the driver/firmware side of things, if
it isn't having problems, don't bother.  I've seen
enough driver updates cause problems on a machine that
was working fine in the first place.
On my own workstation, I am often looking for driver
updates, but with the understanding that I may have to
uninstall the new (and supposedly better) driver to
get back up and running properly again...
--- Andrew Embury <drazak at ingenii.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My group maintains about 50 and growing x86 servers
> (Tier 1 - Dell and HP)
> running Windows and Linux (mostly Windows)
> throughout the city.  We have a
> number of servers internally, but most of them
> belong to external clients.
> My question is, do those of you in similar
> circumstances proactively
> update items such as BIOS Firmware, RAID controller
> firmware, and driver
> updates (NIC, RAID, etc)?
> 
> I've generally done these updates proactively
> internally, but am torn if
> its worth it to apply such updates for external
> clients, most of whom
> their servers and associated systems are running
> just fine and run
> the risk of creating a problem or downtime that did
> not exist before.
> 
> Just to be clear, were not talking software and
> security updates...we
> already quickly apply these.
> 
> I do have deployment tools to ease this should we
> decide to go ahead with
> this.  I'm leaning towards no, and only applying
> these kind of updates if
> they address a specific problem, but wanted to get
> other opinions and
> experiences.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Andrew
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