Routine Maintenance

When you have to do this for a fleet of machines, ​you don’t want to immediately ​install updates as they come in. ​There’ll be way too time consuming. ​Instead, to effectively update and manage hardware, ​you do something called batch update. ​This means that once every month or so, ​you update all your servers ​with the latest security patches. ​You have to find time to take their services offline, ​perform the update and ​verify that the new update works with the service.

A good guideline is to keep your system ​secure by installing ​the latest security patches routinely. ​Staying on top of your security is always a good idea.