Servers Update Plan

Version	Date	Notes	By
0.3	2020-05-15	Added proxmox and OPNsense	jfm
0.2	2019-02-07	Added Yum instruction	nmp
0.1	2018-10-17	Initial release	jfm

Purpose

This documents contain information about how and when to check for updates as well as how to apply them. This assumes some basic knowledge of Linux and Windows Servers.

Schedule

All servers must be checked for update at minimum once a week

Windows Servers

Click the start button
Type Check for updates
Execute the task
If there are updates, apply them
If theres the need to reboot check if the server is currently beeing used, if not reboot it.

Linux Servers

Debian Based (Debian, Ubuntu, etc...)

APT

Never do a dist-upgrade/full-upgrade unless you really need and you know what you ara doing

Execute the command: sudo apt update to download the lastest packages list
Execute the command: sudo apt upgradeto donwload and install the updated packages

You can test the upgrade without applying the changes by running sudo apt upgrade --dry-run

Check the Apt document for more apt commands

RPM Based (CentOS, Red Hat, Fedora, etc...)

Yum

Execute the command sudo yum update

You can see what packages are going to be update by running sudo yum check-update

Proxmox

Proxmox also works with APT, but its recommended to do a sudo apt dist-upgrade

OPNsense

Currently the OPNsense version is the last on the 19.x release, so there's no need to do update until is upgraded to release 20.x. After upgrade there should be instruction here on how to update.

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