Scheduled Installation of the AV Updates and Firmware Installation.
Scheduled Installation of the AV Updates and Firmware Installation is required. The firmware updates and AV Updates should get automatically downloaded over the WAN interfaces, however installation of this updates should be done only when the Date and time is scheduled by the Network Administrator.
In addition to the available scheduling options, the custom category should be added, where in the administrators can select a custom date and custom time, after selecting the custom date and custom time the system should prompt if these settings are just to be executed once, daily, weekly, every 15 days or monthly.
Samson Pacharne
shared this idea
AdminStuart Hatto, XG Product Manager
(Admin, Sophos Features & Ideas Laboratory)
responded
This feature is under review but as yet is not committed.
111 comments
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Muhammad Saleem
commented
This feature is needed on high priority to avoid Internet interruption during working hours. A timeline must be provided by Sophos development team.
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Anonymous
commented
This should be a feature of a enterprise grade firewall. We are waiting to deploy the XG line because of a few missing features including scheduled reboots/updates. It is also quite difficult to believe there is no IKEv2 support. Until then, we will continue to use other vendors for firewalls and may stick with them if these are not added soon.
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TG
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Please add this essential feature. At the moment IT admins either have to work late, unpaid hours once all other staff have left the office, or cause significant downtime for everyone during the day to perform the updates.
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Anonymous
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How did they overlook this feature moving from UTM 9 to the XG models. Would be handy to have this back
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Brandon
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Please god yes. And let us schedule centrally from SFM.
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Jimmy L
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We could use this! If Sophos would like to retain customers, simple features like this need to be added.
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Michael
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If there is a production environment - with remote and service work - where one cannot reboot the device during working houres, there will be no possibility to update the device at all.
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Sophos
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We are still waiting for this feature. Its availability in SG UTM platform, but not the XG platform is a glaring deficiency. Why is this not part of the roadmap?
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Melgdson
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This feature is essential. It should already be present, since it generates a downtime. I add even more, besides the scheduling, also add a flag to, reboot if necessary.
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Tim
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should be added for all pattern updates where network connection is lost when restart is needed. really need this functionality: sometimes the xg restarts when people are working and have no access to internet or the network anymore because it's set to "auto-install". don't want to do it manually, but scheduled.
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Anonymous
commented
this feature is more interesting
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Peter Bell
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We cannot move our company to XG until this is available.
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pramono yeni
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yes, we need this feature as our customers need to update the firmware out of work hours.
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Paul
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We have DeepFreeze and need a way to control when lab system receive updates. Applying while frozen causes issues and the changes are lost when they restart.
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Travis
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Adding to this we should be able to apply the custom date and custom time to a user created machine group. Group A: Updates on Tuesday's. Group B: Updates on Thursdays.
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Ian
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Please advise the forum when the update is planned.
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Kevin
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Definitely needed
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Rico
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So... This is one of my favorite SG features. Please add it.
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Cody MacPhee
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This seems like it should have been there from the beginning. Especially with it already in SGs forever.
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Mike
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Please add this!
