[olug] Best Practices Recommendation

[Phil Brutsche]

Andrew Embury wrote:
> 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.

The owner of the machine should be worrying about such things.

Therefore, if you do not own the machine you should not worry about
firmware and/or drivers updates. Let them worry about their firmware
updates. That whole liability thing...

You should only do it if they ask you to, and there should be a
documentation trail to keep track of the requests.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us