Firmware upgrades - Status Critical

[Roey1984]

Hey there

I noticed that on Organization -->  Firmware upgrades, i see under Schedule Upgrades that i have a few Critical.

I guess i should upgrade them all.

My questions are:

1. Why do i see on the right side "Availability"  as up to date?

2.  Should i just schedule all of them to install at night?

Not sure why it didnt upgrade automatically...

Moreover, what are those sensors..?

should i upgrade them as well?

Thank you 🙂

[alemabrahao]

It would be interesting to update as it usually has bug and vulnerability fixes.

If it is already scheduled, just wait.

As for sensors, if you don't have them you have nothing to worry about, meraki provides 5 licenses for free if I'm not mistaken.

Probably you have some scepter combined network?

https://documentation.meraki.com/MT

[Roey1984]

The thing is, i can see that the upgrade is not scheduled ... which is weird..

Indeed I dont have any sensors, so good I will disregard it.

But as for the switches, I`ll schedule the upgrade to happen at night (for a stable version of course)

[rwiesmann]

Hi, 

in general I do the settings to install it automatically and at night. But it depends on your needs and when most likely the network is not as much used.

Network-wide => general => firmware upgrades you can make your setting for automatic update (Update window and per device typ what time)

You also can ignore it.

In your case, maybe the upgrade window was not reached and therefore no automatic upgrade.

Do you have sensors in your network? If not, ignore it.

If you want to know more about sensors check out this:

https://meraki.cisco.com/de-de/products/sensors/

hope this helps

Roger

[Roey1984]

You re correct.

First, it seems like the switches firmware upgrade is set to Ignore.. dont know why, but i will set it to upgrade at night  (that`s probably the reason why the switches didnt upgrade...🙉)

BTW, the BETA section is not enabled.. so not sure how the MX got itself to the beta version you said..

weird

Should i Make sure all firmware are scheduled to be upgraded, right?

[RaphaelL]

Your MX version is not a beta version. It is a Stable Release Candidate

[Roey1984]

@RaphaelL 

Thank you sir

I just spoke to Meraki specialist, and indeed he told me that this version is Stable.

Thank you mate

Not sure the VPN issues relate to the Firmware..

[alemabrahao]

It is a candidate for stable, it doesn't mean it doesn't have BUGs, I suggest trying it in another version. Sometimes support is reluctant to roll back versions.

[Roey1984]

Interesting..

BTW

Any idea why I have the option to upgrade the MX firmware to the same version?

I`m already running the 18.208..

[RaphaelL]

Because 18.208.0.1 is out

[Roey1984]

Understood.

Ok, and I guess the best practice says to do not upgrade it, right?

[cmr]

@Roey1984 it depends, take a look at the release notes, if you are experiencing any of the issues that have been fixed then it's probably a good idea to upgrade.  Otherwise maybe not.